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...tapping extras, the foot soldiers of Hollywood musicals, Busby Berkeley put them to work by the hundreds, using them to create giant geometric shapes that were both military and erotic. From a Rockettes-style line eight or 10 deep, they would evolve into the human pictograph of a piano or a woman's face. This collection assembles the works that made Berkeley famous: 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Dames and the first two Gold Diggers movies. For the pure Busby buzz, skip to the last half-hour of each film. That's where his numbers are. Better yet, overdose...
...both shocked and dismayed at the inaccuracy of the pictograph accompanying the page one story concerning the housing lottery. Though we are all social science majors, we know of no mathematical formula whereby 16 percent is represented by the same number of stars as 14 percent. However, this is precisely what occurred when The Crimson depicted those freshman indicating they would choose either Winthrop House or Adams House...
...projection. But there is one unusually gifted land artist at the Hirshhorn, Lita Albuquerque. By dusting isolated stones or strewing sharp, evanescent blotches of pigment in desert places (the color is then blown away by the wind), Albuquerque produces an exquisitely fugitive interference with the landscape, like a fleeting pictograph, an acceleration of cultural time in the great stasis of nature. Her single rock in a glass case at the Hirshhorn, unnaturally glowing under its pall of red dust, is as startling as an asteroid...
...electronic displays on the market this year. In the football game, two teams, their lighted figures clearly seen as if from above, pass, kick and evade tacklers on a field that measures about 1 in. by 3 in. In Space Laser Fight, as in Boxing, two tiny figures -moving pictographs about ¾ in. high that can crouch, jump and do battle-face each other and fight. The miniaturization is astonishing. Sound effects are imaginative and frequent; when a spaceman gets zapped (a pictograph showing smashed robot parts flashes on the screen), a descending scale of cheerful beeps is heard...
...labyrinth of reversed and superimposed red letters glows inside a dark plastic box. They spell AUTOMAT, but in fact they defy reading. The signs have ceased to signify. They are fragments-not in the sense of being broken, but in the "historical" sense of archaic fragments: the illegible pictograph, the stone bearing a message in a dead language, the passage written in Minoan Linear B. The work is meant to suggest endurance-despite its dependence on paying the electricity bill...