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...Cover: papier-mâché sculpture by Gerald Scarfe...
...British Artist Gerald Scarfe, this week's cover assignment offered an unusual challenge. TV commercials, he decided, called for something more than the exercise of his satirical pen; nor did one of his papier-maā écartoon sculptures, which had served so well for the Beatles (TIME cover, Sept. 22) and John Kenneth Galbraith (TIME cover, Feb. 16) seem quite right for this subject. Scarfe closeted himself in a New York hotel room for more than a week, watching TV day in, day out concentrating on the commercials and ignoring the programs...
During the past seven years, the Exhibition Center has offered shows that have ranged through history and art, from medicine and mathematics to modern sculpture in papier-mâché. Previous visitors probably remember the reproduction of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel shown at Easter time, or the animated diorama of the First Continental Congress. This week we are opening "A Science Tune-In: New Horizons in Light and Sound," created with the assistance of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...particularly mean Irish longshoreman on strike. Her corner-of-the-mouth wit has the fine rollicking belligerence that keeps everyone within eavesdropping distance of the drunk at the end of the bar. But sure, Honor is a bit of a fraud. The fist she brandishes so threateningly is really papier-mache. Her secret problem is that she is a satirist who faints at the sight of blood. Her seventh novel has all the brilliance of an expertly pulled punch...
...Simply great is Gerald Scarfe's papier-mâché bust of Galbraith. TIME'S cover was passed from student to student, studied, discussed and analyzed-an excellent example of contemporary art and an inspiration to eager art students...