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...Vian's heroes live unperturbed in a world where broken windows heal themselves, where clouds smell of wild thyme or cinnamon sugar, and where a rectangular bedroom becomes spherical when "The Mood to Be Wooed" is played. If we find these anomalies disconcerting, it is because, as Jacques Bens points out in his afterward to the French edition, we are used to fairytales where the supernatural of flying carpets or seven-league boots is inserted in an otherwise normal world. In Vian, on the other hand, the symbolic "pianocktail," which allows one to get literally drunk on jazz, is placed...
High above the atmosphere, Mariner unfolded its four rectangular solar panels and wheeled around until sensors locked onto the sun and the star Canopus, stabilizing the 850-lb. craft in space. Then, right on course, the complex space traveler settled down for a five-month, 226 million-mile journey that is scheduled to take it to within 2,000 miles of Mars on July...
Some of the works are, of course, stronger than others. You don't remember Anthony Thompson's rectangular sheet of clear plexiglass with one corner folded until you're deep in the subway. Only then does the powerful subtlety of Minimal Art attack. By contrast, the huge white canvas with three thick black lines by Curtis Crystal, a Tufts undergraduate, seems consciously aware of its importance...
...parties and permitted each to view the conference in whatever way it chose. It satisfies the Communist demand that the Front sit down as an equal partner in a four-party meeting. At the same time, since the table will be flanked on two sides by smaller, rectangular tables for secretariat personnel, the allies can point to that as proof that the conference is a two-sided affair. Picayune though that may seem, it is an important point; it allows the U.S. and South Viet Nam to deal with the Front without according it recognition. In the weeks to come...
Ready To Do Business. Last week Colonel Ha Van Lau, North Viet Nam's deputy negotiator, surprised his U.S. counterpart, Cyrus Vance, by resubmitting a table design that Hanoi had haughtily rejected once before: a round table flanked by two smaller rectangular tables. Such a layout, Lau said, would be acceptable, provided the smaller tables could be separated slightly from the big table (by about 18 inches, as it turned out). He also accepted the suggestion that the allies speak first, to be followed by Hanoi and then the Front; earlier, Hanoi had demanded that the speaking order...