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...fish. While conducting tours at the space center, she telephones her dog Vladimir several times daily, just the sort of thing to alarm the security people. Doris ultimately proves that she is not an enemy agent. She runs amuck in a remote-controlled speedboat, does battle with a ferocious robot vacuum cleaner and sprawls aloft in an antigravity chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Space Chase | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Wednesday, March 16 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Julie Newmar, who played a robot last season on "My Living Doll," unbends for a supple guest appearance as the Catwoman in "The Purr-fect Crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Mar. 18, 1966 | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Giggling Robot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICAN HUMOR: Hardly a Laughing Matter | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...lumber into view unless preceded by its keeper-situation. Perhaps, too, it was inevitable that once man found a way to can the stuff of life he would some day find a way to can the stuff of the soul-laughter. Canned laughter is everywhere; TV has become a robot talking to itself, giggling at its own jokes. Even the few truly humorous shows-Get Smart!, The Dick Van Dyke Show-cannot fulfill the demand to be funny and original week after week. "It's not surprising," says S. J. Perelman, "that people who do weekly comedy shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICAN HUMOR: Hardly a Laughing Matter | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Role of Chance. His robots have turned into cybernetic escapades. Behind their Plexiglas facades, these new sculptures are as immediate and erratic as a jukebox full of Beatles. His sculptures are "superfluous, relating to no specific function. They are instruments for me to express something." What? The answer seems to be the way that the world appears to be controlled by chance. Says he: "I assume that our society has sensed this unpredictability. Look at the number of insurance com panies." In the future, he hopes to get his messages across more directly by making his audience an active part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: The Motion Is Haphazard, The Situation Unpredictable | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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