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...limbs may break or die too. After several weeks the eggs hatch, the larvae crawl out and drop down on the ground where they bury themselves for 16 years, 10½ months. Then, on the first hot day of May, they climb out of the ground, shed their shells, sprout wings and start a plague...
...Mushroom & the Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Krthur Kopit. A surrealistic foray into the no-man's land of Mornism. Barbara Harris is the sexiest sprout since Lolita...
...temporarily transferred from the First Royal Tank Regiment serving in West Germany to the Nigerian army (trained by British officers). In December he volunteered for a three-month tour of duty with U.N. forces in the Congo. No sooner did Lawson arrive than his legend began to sprout...
While Moreau's centaurs, sphinxes and Cyclopes are conventional symbols, Redon created monsters seen only by himself. Eyes float like balloons, ears become wings, strange plants sprout out of human heads. Fantasy, said Redon, is "the messenger of the 'unconscious,' of the eminent and mysterious personage . . . who arrives in his own time, according to the moment, the place, even the season." Redon never could explain how the "mysterious personage" worked for him, but he had no real need to. As the show proves once again, seldom has one man's imagination disgorged such an astonishing array...