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...posters are hand-cut, too. This is important. Before the Friday night when the Strike Artists' Co-operative began, none of them had known about the technique of silk-screen printing. A couple of people brought in the method and showed them how it goes. Since then about thirty people have picked up the process by which virtually all of the posters of the strike have been printed...
...exceptionally magnificent and approach the best work produced by a whole country full of screaming leftists in France last Mai. There is the "on strike abstract" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #4), which is a print that was originally a woodcut and was adapted to silk-screen for reproduction. Its use of a circular figure makes it the most suggestive of the strike workshop's designs...
...story itself is simple to the point of banality, but set in this strange, poetic universe it becomes unforgettable. Vian's language evokes both sensuality and a kind of fragile tenderness; Chloe's skin is "amber-colored and as appetizing as marzipan," but she coughs "like a piece of silk tearing." This delicacy is poignant in the second half of the novel, as Chloe and Colin become the innocent victims of an inexplicable determinism for which no one will take responsibility. At Chloe's grotesque, horrifying funeral, Colin cross-examines Jesus...
...show just proved that people who appear on such programs have an intelligence gap. Finally, ABC is adding a prime-time version of Let's Make a Deal, the afternoon show in which hysterical housewives bid against each other for what may be a pig (or a silk purse) in a poke. This year's second season has already played the game, and lost...
...assume the guise of peaceful travelers. Joining parties with their victims, they would charm them right up to the moment at which one designated Thug would seize a doomed man's wrists while another Thug would strangle him from behind with a noose of white or yellow silk-Kali's favorite colors. Sometimes talented Thugs would play the sitar and coax their victims into singing, the better to expose their throats for throttling...