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...Thurber Carnival is a one-mind show, an animated anthology of pen-and-pencil work by the most splendidly mad of modern humorists. The thought of such a show, however alluring, must cause qualms: Can a world, neither flesh, fish nor fowl and at the same time quite palpably all three, remain vaultingly alive within theater walls, seem superbly demented in three sober dimensions? It turns out that to a notable degree, it can. For one thing, there is much of Thurber that snugly fits a kind of intimate revue. The Unicorn in the Garden and If Grant Had Been...
...smiling, fragile-looking woman in a ruby-red suit and a black topcoat struggled to keep her footing. As two waves of muscular young men converged on her, someone called out: "Can you breathe?" Breathing hard, the Second Lady of the Land nodded, finally succeeded, by holding her pen at chin level, in writing her autograph for an eager French athlete. "I'm getting squashed," admitted Pat Nixon, "but it's all right...
...position before the Nixons, fastened a silver tie clip to the Vice President's collar. "Sputnik," he said, pointing to the engraving on the clasp. "We're so happy to see you," said Pat. "I have a memento for you." And she handed him a green ballpoint pen...
...Schuller, Composer Diamond used Twittering Machine as the inspiration for one of his pieces, but he saw it in more somber tones: muted, dark-hued movements of the strings, with the picture's more jagged lines delineated by scampering woodwinds and brasses. Dance of the Grieving Child, a pen-and-ink sketch in which the child's sharply inclined head looks like an immense light bulb with umbrellas for filament, moved Diamond to a softly lyrical, dreamlike sequence in the strings, interrupted by brassy but tentative dissonances and finally fading limply into silence. The Black Prince, which consists...
...eleven months a year, Gossie spent much of his time in a traveling case in the back of Clara's Dodge station wagon as she barnstormed from one city to another on the show-dog circuit. Nights, she pulled into a motel, set up a 6-ft. pen, and turned Gossie loose for his exercise, after carefully choosing a smooth stretch of lawn with no twigs or briars that might snag his coat...