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...goes well, until Eve (Jessica Walling) awakens from her lifeless sleep, a symbol of her creation by God. She has the uncanny ability to call thing by their correct names; what Adam calls a `four-pronged white squirter', she instinctively calls a cow. Her superior knowledge disturbs Adam, but he reassures himself by flaunting his comic abilities--all of which has nothing to do with terrible fate, bit it gives levity to the otherwise grim storyline...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: Direction Gives Spark, Sensuality To an Unimpressive Apple Tree: | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...money. Maybe part of the problem was the ineptitude of these two in the world of machines. Nixon could not run a tape recorder. Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wristwatch and once had to halt his automobile to solve the problem of turning on the windshield squirter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Black Holes and Martian Valleys | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...Memorial Museum in Nice. Beside him beamed Chagall. Then out of the crowd leaped a mustachioed, bald-headed fellow crying "A has Chagalir Splat! With unerring aim he squirted Malraux in the face with a syringe full of red paint. Cat-quick, Malraux grabbed the weapon and squirted the squirter back. "There are cranks everywhere," he shrugged as the flics took custody of the offender, a Riviera artist named Pierre Pinoncelli. "I don't intend to press charges," said Malraux. "It's just watercolor," cried Pinoncelli as the cops carted him away. "You won't even have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Diary of Adam and Eve. Eve chews out Adam before he chews on the apple. She wants the grass "shortened." She wants their three-board wigwam painted because she hates brown. Their Eden is no paradise of humor. Adam: "I have to empty the four-pronged white squirter." Eve: "You mean the cow." Eve discovers love, but the snake must have slipped her the lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Plop Art | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Working with special cellulose paints guaranteed not to rub off or chip, Artist Bernard Buffet turned out a typical still life complete with pink fish, got an offer of 2,000,000 francs ($5,000) for it. Cocteau drew a doodle, surrounded it with blue blobs. Tube-Squirter Georges Mathieu held himself down, produced only some wispy black lines and fuchsia smears. Oldtime Surrealist Léonor Fini turned her refrigerator into a Chinese lacquer box decorated with stalking cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ice Cubism | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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