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...Casey (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A female psychiatrist (Patricia Neal) uses a truth serum to rouse one of her unresponsive patients...
...danger of annihilation. Weather, children, riflemen and clumsy power mowers are rapidly wreaking havoc on the ancient tombstones that stand row on row in cemeteries all over New England and the South. But with the help of a Ford Foundation grant, two young artists, Ann Parker and Avon Neal, have been haunting graveyards since 1961, preserving the crumbling heritage in a less vulnerable form. Last week a show of 120 of their meticulous gravestone rubbings (see opposite page) opened at the Brooklyn Museum...
...rubbing is made on the principle that schoolboys have been using for generations when they put paper over a coin and run a pencil over the surface to make a copy. Parker and Neal use large sheets of strong, pliable Japanese rice paper placed over the carving. A silk pad, dipped in black ink, is rubbed over the paper, and colored inks-coppery green or earthy brown-are added with other pads until the final effect is achieved. "Sometimes it takes hours-a whole day for a big one," says Neal. "We are often surprised to see how a rubbing...
Memento Mori. Ann Parker, a handsome blonde whose lively enthusiasm is far from ghoulish, got the idea of immortalizing tombstone carving one weekend after stumbling on a weed-grown graveyard near the hamlet of Colrain, Mass. She and Neal started boning up on New England stonecutters, found that most of them had been Yankee Jacks-of-all-trades who knew how to use chisel and mallet. One stonecutter, John Stevens of Newport, R.I., set up a shop for himself in 1705 that is still in operation after being handed down through generations of stonecutters...
Each rubbing, like an etching or a print, is an original. The cost ranges from $15 to $75, making them within the budget of the average collector. Parker and Neal have a show scheduled at Carnegie Institute of Technology this month, another at Princeton in April, and late fall exhibitions in Paris and New York...