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Torsion, Crystallic Image, Construction in Space with Crystal Center. With their bridges and platforms, their delicate plastic cutouts, their gleaming spider webs of plastic thread, they tend to look like the inner ears of a robot or like railway stations in some suburb on Mars...
...Manhattan, after losing the first game of the playoff, the Minneapolis Lakers whipped the New York Knickerbockers four straight for the National Basketball Association championship the fourth Laker title in five years iln Pocatello, the Idaho State boxing team, with the aid of its Olympic boxer, Ellsworth ("Spider") Webb, won the N.C.A.A. title from Wisconsin, 25-19 ¶ At Bowie, Md., in a Kentucky Derby preview-with Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer absent-Eugene Constantin Jr's Royal Bay Gem charged up from dead last at the halfway mark to win the $34,050 Chesapeake Stakes...
...Brien) who, as a result of a brain operation (prefrontal lobotomy), forgets where he has stashed away the $130,000 take from a payroll robbery. Like House of Wax, the movie seems tireless in depicting objects jumping out at the audience: surgical instruments, a car, a bird, a spider. In fact, just about everything seems to come out at the moviegoer except a good movie...
...Hygiene building itself is hardly a place for an adequate medical center. It was set up in the shell of the old Spec Club that burned down in 1930. The inside is like a spider-web, with myriads of narrow hallways. Cramped offices lack of storage space, and a tiny den for testing eyes that no self-respecting optometrist would tolerate make life tough for both doctors and patients...
...porcine Cinderella, in fact. But thanks to bottle feeding by a little girl, Wilbur waxes so stout that he is a cinch to become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider, who spins over his sty such complimentary words as SOME PIG, TERRIFIC, RADIANT and HUMBLE. The farmer is so impressed by these magic signs that he spares Wilbur, who lives fattily ever after. Author White (who lives on his own Maine farm) also does a fine job on farmyard life...