Word: merlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first U.S. Marines to land on the shores of Lancelot are met by cheering natives. Lancelot's sovereignty is imperiled by guerrilla bands that have infiltrated from the neighboring country of Merlin, and the U.S. has sent the Marines to the rescue. The natives throng around their American saviors, tug at the Marines' packs, playfully grab their guns. In their enthusiasm, some of the Lancelotians seize field telephone wire and get it hopelessly snarled; others, trying to help land a truck, succeed only in pushing the vehicle deeper into the surf...
...Finney's unearthly 1935 novel The Circus of Dr. Lao, Randall solves other people's "plobrems." The film is a veritable fortune cookie: a frothy dab of nothing and inside a message about the frailty of man's illusions. To deliver it, Randall also impersonates: Merlin the magician; a seer; the Abominable Snowman; a talking snake; a syrinx-playing satyr who pipes away inhibitions; and a Medusa who turns a small town shrew to stone...
...magnesium. Though Collie's magnetized sculptures do not soar with full air borne freedom, they do hover and float* above their pedestals, attached by almost imperceptible nylon strings. The effect is playful and magical-rather like Collie himself, who combines the hot-eyed zeal of a young Merlin with the twinkle-eyed grin of a boy with a toy. Collie, 25, calls his works spatial-absolutes: spatial because they are floating in space, absolute because "the true essence of a shape, its 100% value" can be fully experienced and appreciated only when it is lifted from its base...
...mouth of a sumptuous girl; then a hammer comes out of her nose and knocks Harry back between her chops. Breath-Death shows Harpo Marx playing his harp on the edge of a smoking battlefield. Khrushchev appears, sneezes, and Hitler pops up and says Gesundheit. A Merlin-like figure suddenly gets stuck in the back of the neck with a flying table fork. A nude appears, with two small skulls where her breasts should be. Another girl lies in bed caressing a TV set on the pillow beside her. Reading downbed from the TV set is a spread...
...about-town who knows writers rather than writing, and women only socially ("He never much liked their shape"), Pryar has sidled into the academic racket as the world's only authority on the world's worst poet, a gruesome Australian mother of seven named Dorothy Merlin. How can he be released from servitude to this distant termagant and become director of the Institute of Visiting Fellows? This is the question the plot turns on, and it looks like a Snow family specialty -academic power politics. However, all the characters at Cobb behave even more oddly than called...