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...fall toward the ground. They are tied to long ropes which are wrapped tightly around the summit of the pole. Hanging upside down, all four men begin to spin in accelerating, expanding, awesomely descending circles as the ropes unwind, righting themselves just in time to drop lightly to the pavement...
Flanked by panels painted with false perspectives, other bits of bronze, chunks of pavement, ax-hewn and charred wood catch the eye. Some parts of the sculpture peep from behind doors; others curlicue underneath canopies. One piece, or "galaxy" as Kiesler calls them, is titled The Cup of Prometheus, and appropriately contains a burning smudge pot. To encourage people to contemplate the work, Kiesler cast two 85-lb. aluminum stools that are exactly placed in reference to larger parts. The problem is that Kiesler has had to borrow his most precious commodity-space-from a polygonal room in Wright...
...have flown it in," marveled a California highway patrolman. "You can't drive in there." The crumpled silver-grey Ferrari was wedged between the pines in a canyon in California's High Sierras, where Singer Vic Damone, 35, crash-landed after skidding on a patch of snowy pavement. The car was a total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned by Bill...
...currently bestselling Wapshot Scandal, this world takes on baffling shapes-both more familiar and more strange. The scene is contemporary, but the solid modern pavement on which the characters walk is fractured by the inexplicable convulsions of the Space Age. Coverly, exiled to the noncommunity of a missile base, finds the apparently human personnel recognize each other's existence no more than so many shades in a picture-window limbo of tract houses. His brother Moses, apparently better equipped than his dreamy brother to achieve success and enjoy its rewards, is defeated by the metamorphosis of his wife Melissa...
...damn much concrete!" roared one girl, and everyone following her took up the complaint. The plans call for large areas of pavement among the modern buildings along Garden Street, now an avenue of grass and off-campus houses...