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With no assist from the psychedelic sector, the Pentagon and environs last week looked nightmarish indeed. Workers had to use steam to scrub the steps and walls leading to the entrance of the Mall-and even that failed to erase the graffiti that demonstrators had smeared on with ineradicable black plastic paint. Some of the protesters-who numbered 30,000 to 35,000 according to a Naval Air Intelligence count-left more personal souvenirs on the Mall. "You should see what we found out there," said one worker. "Nothing but bras and panties. You never saw so many." The only...
...data transmitted back to earth from Russia's Venus 4 and the U.S.'s Mariner 5 spacecraft, scientists last week pieced together a picture of Venus as a place of unbearable heat, a dense and noxious atmosphere, and nightmarish optical effects...
Asturias is a novelist of the poor and oppressed; he fills his books with the same gothic ribaldry and nightmarish fantasies that Hieronymus Bosch brooded on five centuries ago. In his latest novel, Mulata, published in the U.S. a month ago, boars talk, women are impregnated through the navel, men are transformed into dwarfs, giants or rocks. A healer tests the sacredness of a place by touching the earth "with the ten tongues of his hands." When an old woman dozes, she is "butterflying with sleep like all old people." When a crowd gathers, "nightfall assembled them...
...most of its 132 years, the Missouri poky resembled a Dickensian choky. Though custody was lax for the favored few who hid money or political pull, most inmates lived in nightmarish squalor. At one time the prison held close to twice as many as it was supposed to, with many 12-ft. by 9-ft. cubicles sleeping seven or more. Maggots and rats infested the food-handling areas. Gambling, homosexuality and use of drugs were rife, and as a result of their stay in "Jeff City," many convicts were more intractable when they left prison than when they went...
...that sort of daring was exactly what the Royal Danish Ballet was looking for. Typical of the new look he has given the Danes is his flashy new production of Bartok's nightmarish The Miraculous Mandarin, which has been running in Copenhagen for the past few weeks. A series of taut opening scenes, ominously underscored by Bartok's crashing, nervous music, sets the sordid story: a leering, undulating streetwalker lures her men to a shadowy room where a trio of gangsters beat and rob them. The last victim is a hideously ugly, stooped Chinese mandarin, danced by Flindt...