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...blossomed suddenly, the kinetic kraze has been a long time germinating. As early as 1910, the Italian futurists wanted to "renew art by seeking the style of movement" and proclaimed a racing automobile more beautiful than the Winged Victory. Dadaist Marcel Du-champ set a bicycle wheel atop a stool in 1913 and called it Mobile. The Russian constructivists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner issued a manifesto in 1920 proclaiming their freedom "from the 1,000-year-old error of art, originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements. For present-day perception, the most important elements...
Business Quadrupled. After a two-year stint with the Army in Panama ("I spent most of my free time digging up pre-Columbian art objects"), Peter arrived back in New York and started searching for a gold-plated piano stool, just as his father had 32 years before. Duchin and his twelve-piece band were soon booked for $3,000 a week in the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette. Almost immediately, the nightclub's business quadrupled. Peter stayed on for three years, and the Maisonette was the only cheek-to-cheek dance spot in New York, besides...
...happy to tell its readers how to get quick service at the local pubs: "A soft-shoe dance on the bar with combat boots is generally recommended for immediate attention from the establishment's personnel. Other attention-getting devices are obscene noises, self-immolation on the bar stool, a quick change into a bedouin sheik in the toilet, riding in on a water buffalo, faking an epileptic seizure...
...seventh round, Floyd had to be helped to his stool. He was suffering from a cramp in his back which was to prevent him from standing up straight for the remainder of the fight. He dragged himself around the ring, vainly attempting to counter the light, but rapid fire of the champion. Clay seemed to be carrying Floyd, hitting him at will, humiliating...
Unoccult Skeptics. First-timers have the most fun. After the bookcase, there is the bar stool where a newcomer is inevitably seated. Slowly, very slowly, it sinks until the guest suddenly notices his companions towering over him and his neck straining to keep up with the conversation. A cocktail table unobtrusively revolves, mixing up drinks and drinkers. A "dead body" glares from an open coffin. In the gilded-cage elevator, a monster rattles and bangs the bars. And then there is Irma...