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...Lonely Island. A more serious complaint is that the tried and true New Yorker formulas of the 1920s and '30s are out of place in the 1960s. The shapeless, plotless New Yorker short-story form tends more and more to pedestrian tales of the Irish moors and "When-I-was-a-child-in-Afghanistan-my-grandmother-used-to-tell-me" reminiscences. The New Yorker's cartoons still run faithfully to prisoners or to strandees on lonely islands. "I get awfully sick of prison pictures," admits Art Director James Geraghty, "but they keep coming in, and sometimes they...
...fountain," says Kricke, "is often nothing but a Neptune ringed by spitting fish. The real thing should not be a mere mass from which water spurts. It is water, the passive element, endowed with activity. It is water, the silent element, endowed with a voice. It is water, the shapeless element, endowed with a form...
Poet & Piano Mover. Her luminous eyes-so bright that Hollywood cameramen never liked to shoot her too close-and her fine, mobile mouth are often overshadowed by a carefully careless costume: thick, shapeless sweaters, flat shoes, coarse hair uncombed, and the rugged tongue of someone who takes refuge in being thought a "kook." She loves to demonstrate eccentricity. One night she was sitting with a group of friends who were kidding her about her carelessness with money. Promptly Annie pulled a $20 bill from her purse and started eating it, nibbling the edges like a rabbit tackling lettuce. "I just...
...blame? In trying to answer that question, critics are baffled by the fact that television is a shapeless giant that often seems to be functioning without a head...
Worse even than locked doors was the intimate desocialization and dehumanization of the patients. On admission to most hospitals, they were stripped of their own clothes, allowed only shapeless, unbelted robes and floppy slippers. Wristwatches were locked up (the crystals might be broken and used in suicide attempts). Eyeglasses were removed at night because of the same fear. Even wedding bands were sometimes taken away (the patients might swallow them or drop them down the toilets). Men could not shave themselves. Bathrooms were locked, and patients could not go to them unattended. Knives and forks were banned from the dining...