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This may not have been the archaeological coup of the age, but in some mysterious fashion, it suddenly seized the imagination of a group of European sculptors after World War II. All at once, Bond Street and Rue de Seine overflowed with tasteful mock fossils by Marino Marini, Germaine Richier and César. The style spread to America. The parallels were too many and too pat to miss: Pompeianism suited many a Fifties liberal, with his passive sense of impending catastrophe and his culturally induced impotence in the face of Joe McCarthy and Curtis LeMay. (Q. What...
These worm-eaten soldiers are sacrified on the altar of reputation. Reason is lost as it is defended: heroism is traduced as it is celebrated, Each new deed only provides a richer banquet for ravenous time- "alms for oblivion"- returning to mock the captain as he struts within the monumental mockery of unreasoning heroism...
...impressive display. As part of Operation Okean (for ocean), an attack force of eight vessels built around the new 18,000-ton helicopter carrier Leningrad moved through the North Atlantic toward the Norwegian Sea. There, two larger Soviet task forces lay in Wait to conduct a mock defense near the straits of Skagerrak and Kattegat, the approaches to the Baltic. In the Mediterranean, 45 ships conducted antisubmarine exercises. From the icy Barents and Okhotsk seas to the warmer reaches of the Indian and Pacific oceans, sleek Russian cruisers and black-hulled submarines carried out simultaneous exercises...
...mobster in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-Sac (1966). In Italy these days, no spaghetti western is complete without his brutal snarl. He will star in four pictures this year, produce a fifth himself and is currently averaging $5,000 a week. Rome's feline newspapers may mock him as "the world's oldest hippie," but Slander's fans have made him something of a European folk hero...
Waiting for Arthur. This impasse confers a greater than usual power on seven secretive men who sit in a mock Grecian temple on Constitution Avenue. As governors of the Federal Reserve Board, they have always functioned as a supreme court of money. Today, the Federal Reserve's power to control the flow of new money into business and influence interest rates for lending makes it about the only arm of Government left with much room to maneuver in trying to steer the economy. As businessmen watch their profits drop, investors see stock prices sink, and housewives note other prices...