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Mobilist Alexander Calder saw his "prisoner" as two black triangles pierced with a spear. Philadelphia's Wharton Esherick used a pair of leaning monoliths to convey his idea. Others showed a tiny figure trapped, fly-like, in a conical web of wires; shapeless wooden chunks joined by metal bars; a writhing metal mass with sharp edges and a pair of protruding wings. Only one winner gave his prisoner a human form...
...A.S.D.E. the runways show up as black bands outlined by radar reflections from the knee-high grass that grows on their margins. Airplanes moving along them are not mere shapeless blobs; they are sharply defined bright bars, and experienced radarmen can even tell one type of plane from another. A car or truck shows up as a smaller rectangle, and a man who steps out of one shows as a bright dot. Any obstacle on a runway, such as a misguided truck or a disabled airplane, is spotted at a glance...
...must be prepared psychologically and financially to lose money. Other houses may promise riches. We never promise riches. We just offer immortality!" Immortality is the one thing that no book thus far published by Exposition is apt to achieve. Though house editors and freelance polishers work over the sometimes "shapeless" manuscripts that come in, many of them still emerge as embarrassingly bad books and most of them might better have been carried to the attic...
...head of Ekco Products Co. and king of the U.S. kitchenware business, it is his job to make women want ever more household gimmicks. Keating estimates that nearly a third of existing gadgets disappear every year: they are lost in the garbage, carted away by children, or battered shapeless by amateur earthmovers in the backyard. Keating makes it his business to put the rest out of date...
Pogo is a bright-eyed, cuddly little critter, as amiably shapeless as a Teddy bear, with a head like a hairy zero, a nose like an overboiled yam. He lives somewhere in the happy absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom...