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...sweeping across the area threatened to postpone the shot. Then the wind faded and the device was detonated. Standing on a mountain-top 57 miles away, observers could not hear the explosion. But they saw its effect perfectly: a great mass composed of thousands of tons of granite boulders, sand, clay, yucca trees, sagebrush, tumbleweed, and even stray kangaroo rats, rabbits and rattlesnakes was hurled 7,000 ft. into the sky. It seemed to hesitate, then crashed to the earth in a cloud of dust...
...this beguiling if hokey mystery-comedy off to a start. As Mrs. Carlye Hardwicke, an American, she owns the stately London town house, though she seems to have mislaid Mr. Hardwicke. Jack Lemmon, her tenant, is a U.S. State Department official named Bill Gridley, up from the sand lots of Saudi Arabia to the diplomatic big league of the American embassy in London. The neighbors, and Scotland Yard, have their own ideas about Mr. Hardwicke. "She killed him,"say they...
...still damp clay courts. Others either boarded buses for tours of Cape Ann, homes and gardens, the Manchester harbor, or else took a trip to Singing Beach, where there was "no swimming, but a chance to see the beach, walk in your bare tootsies and let the sand squeeze through your toes...
...same." Sellers finally comprehends. Putting up his brains, trimming his beard, he pursues what he can now clearly see is the good life. He overpowers the crook he works for and spirals upward, swiftly becoming an international financier, running stupendous treasuries through his fingers like sand. The camel jumps gracefully through the eye of the needle into the sheer heaven of riches on earth...
Mystery & Universality. In a flurry of experimentation. Braque produced the first paper collage, mixed sand into his paint to achieve new textures, introduced lettering into his pictures to suggest themes of everyday life. He was so inventive, in fact, that Picasso began to refer to him as "Vilbur." after the American Wilbur Wright. After World War I. in which he was badly wounded. Braque became more contemplative. His new paintings were relaxed: the rigid geometry, finally uncaged, became fluid...