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...drawing depicts a "ride through space." which is taken on a yellow slide entered at top through an Apollo-type capsule. They also intend to throw objects at a gargantuan mouse-target who wears a sign saying "cheese please." A badminton court, and a spook house which has an octopus guarding it are among other parts of their dream...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: The Masterbuilder Boston Artists Project '70 Exhibition | 6/10/1970 | See Source »

...around the Apple recording studios, the film concentrates heavily on Paul McCartney, so much so that the billing might be changed to "Let It Be, starring Paul McCartney and some other Beatles." There are flashes of John dancing with his wife Yoko Ono, and George and Ringo picking out Octopus Garden on guitar and piano, but most of the good footage belongs to Paul. He is the one who seems to be running the recording sessions, and he is surely the one who gets to sing-mostly in lingering closeups-all the great songs, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: McCartney and Others | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...liked your fish very much. The octopus was nice too bad he died. When will you get another? I especially liked the infrared...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: Fish Garibaldi and the Blue Rumor | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

HUNTLEY wanted to find the octopus. He found a braingray sac pressed into a corner of stone and glass, with a sad, small eye looking directly at him. The octopus looked like a corpulent ghost: but I suppose that a motionless, eight-handed beast isn't necessarily sad or pensive or dolorously malicious, and that for all I know-and I would much rather think so-he was bouyant with comatose hilarity, passing the time in genial mockery of this poor human being, hopelessly circumscribed with only a quarter of his arms. These thoughts prepared me for the seahorses. They...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: Fish Garibaldi and the Blue Rumor | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...given the proper nourishment, Theatron could easily become an octopus. It is ready to expand into film next year, having experimented a little with that medium this year. (Drew Denbaum, who plays both the Master of Ceremonies and Uriah Shelley in A Man's A Man. had a role in Midnight Cowboy which was ultimately cut from the script...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goes On Tour With Brecht's'A Man's A Man' | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

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