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Like Norsemen of old toasting Balder, the god of light, Scandinavians celebrate summer with feasting and fireworks, music festivals and folk dancing until dawn. At lunch hour, heliotropic beauties stand on every sidewalk with closed eyes and hiked skirts, "mooning at the sun," as the Swedes say. Restaurant tables are laden with summer delicacies: crayfish, trout in sour cream, fresh eels, wild strawberries. In the milky gloaming that passes for night, Copenhagen cabarets work double shifts, and the nightlong sounds of revelry prompt a tourist official's tip: "Have fun in Denmark. Sleep in the next country...
...other sections, too, you will find news that is not conveyed by the headlines or the bulletins. SHOW BUSINESS, for instance, covers Manhattan's most unusual entertainment (it happens on the sidewalk). Music tells about one of the newest and most exciting masters of the dance, LAW about a philanthropist who would like, if he could, to bail out every prisoner in the land. BUSINESS talks about the comeback of the small grocer, and RELIGION about a hotel that owes more to Moses than to Conrad Hilton...
...this year are limited to two nights a week. "It's always in the dark," says Long. "I used to climb the playground fence at the grammar school down the block, but the night watchman didn't like that much. So now I use a piece of sidewalk in the park...
...looks out, checks the field, withdraws. And then, blast off. Out of the stage door steps Elizabeth Taylor. She is wearing yellow, or lavender, or green, or rose, or some other color, never anything she has ever worn before or will again. The audience surges forward. She crosses the sidewalk in seven steps or three seconds. Hamlet follows her, not all that melancholy.* She flashes a sudden dazzling, billiondollar smile and slips into the limousine purring in wait at the curb. It pulls out slowly, flanked by mounted policemen on either side, and creeps leisurely down the center...
...facade toward Fifth Avenue, is now a wide breezeway through to the garden. To the east of it, Architect Philip Johnson, once the museum's director of architecture and design, has built a new wing with a facade of muscular steel beams framing huge plates of glass from sidewalk to roof (a similar wing will eventually be built to the west). Inside, the doubly expanded museum seems more than doubly competent to its task. Extra room lets it show how the whole family of modern art lives in harmony: photography, cinema, industrial design, architecture, graphics, paintings and sculpture...