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...They are lye-soap operas-shot through with strong stuff, but soap nonetheless...
...effort to obey the court. But tensions were high. On the eve of New Orleans' famed Mardi Gras more than 100 Negro organizations canceled their usual celebrations. Schwegmann's supermarket chain advertised a formal denial in the Times-Picayune that sales of ice picks and lye have been heavier than usual...
MOONSHINERS are generally thought of as backwoods hillbillies who salt their product with lye, manure and dead skunks, but Georgia's biggest moonshiner is a respectable (and licensed) businessman. See BUSINESS, Shine On, Georgia Moon...
Alexander Calder's coat-hanger agglomerations of free forms twist and bob lazily on the breeze, exploit the possibilities for chance movement that reside in lightly balanced equilibriums. Lye's idea is to exploit instead the resiliences of high-tempered steels and flexible plastics. He raises simple abstract constructions of such materials on pedestals containing silent motor-vibrators. At a taped signal, the motors go into action, moving first slowly, then faster in a carefully calculated cycle, and the sculptures begin taking shape upon...
...Lye would like to see story-high versions of his Tangibles in public parks and plazas, timed to go into action at long intervals, and with suitable musical accompaniment. The result would certainly startle the unwary passerby, and the fact that his Tangibles are wholly abstract may count against them in the eyes of most park commissioners. But Lye remains firmly wedded to abstraction. "These are for grace and power of motion," he explains, "not for imagery. They are not supposed to be like anything...