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...buttery and phosphorescent boy's head, all ringlets and swooning lips, served up on its jeweled lyre like a parody of John the Baptist's head on a plate. Nevertheless, the fact that the head is seen turning into, or materializing out of the lyre seems to predict the metamorphoses that Magritte would impose on the homelier physical world half a century later...
...artist was Degouve de Nuncques painting a strange, silent forest and a Magritte-like nocturnal house, or Khnopff giving a foretaste of the deserted townscapes of surrealism with his drawing of a city abandoned to the sea, or Leon Spilliaert producing a haunted self-portrait, the images constantly predict the sense of solitude and disquiet in which surrealism reveled...
...than they did on their old product pitches. Oil firms tend to guard their advertising figures jealously. But Standard of California cut its advertising budget by 70% last year; Atlantic Richfield's 1974 ad budget is 40% lower than last year's. Standard of Indiana executives predict that in 1974 their advertising outlay will be less than half the $28 million it was in 1970. One of the few firms that plan to advertise more is Exxon, which anticipates a "substantial increase" over last year's expenditure...
...Sack 57 Cinema in Boston. Four Manhattan theaters have lines extending for blocks from noon to midnight. In its first five weeks, The Exorcist (TIME, Jan. 14-21) has rung up more than $10 million at box office cash registers in 20 cities. Glowing -and gloating-Warner Bros, executives predict that it will easily top the alltime moneymaker The Godfather, which grossed more than $155 million for Paramount...
...thus into the tax take. Revenues will be lower than if the economy were closer to full employment, and the budget is dropping deeper into the red. The deficit is expected to swell from $4.7 billion this fiscal year to $9.4 billion next year. Many economists outside the Government predict larger deficits, as high as $20 billion. For all of Richard Nixon's conservative fiscal views, his budgets have never ended in surplus...