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...tosses in nightmare; waves swill against his mattress, accusing figures and monsters jostle in the water, and a gigantic buttoned glove flops like a squid against the bedroom wall. A skeleton lies across a railroad track, two bony ringers stuck between fleshless lips to whistle an approaching train to its accident. Cliffs become gloomy torsos, a lobster floats in air. The images seem like snippets from a surrealist collage by Max Ernst. In fact, they filled the graphic work of a 19th century German academician named Max Klinger...
...Chronicle during his 18 years as top editor. Almost singlehandedly, Newhall changed the Chronicle from a dull, gray daily loaded with international news into a paper full of snappy human interest stories, pictures with lots of cleavage and bizarre headlines. Example: "A Great City is Forced to Drink Swill" -followed by an "exposé" of the alleged bad coffee in restaurants...
...designers worked on one park, playground, or object than on a city-wide plan. But if all their designs are executed, Boston will have youth centers, parks, and playgrounds galore, all full of unique playthings, bright murals, awnings and light shows. And traditional art works like paintings and sculpture swill be done at the giant city-scale to propagate public pleasure-some billboards will even hold cheery graphics instead of motel...
...certain prisoner psychology is taking hold. One cast member recently denounced a hot meal served on location as "proper swill." Another says darkly: "We're even beginning to fight over extra bowls and hide away pieces of stale cake...
...reports were circulating on the cause of the sit-in. According to organizer of the demonstration, Larry L. King, Harper's '67 and Texas Tech '49, the Niemans were invited to occupy the building so the CRIMSON could swill away some of their advertising profits unbuttered by news responsibilities. Others, however, hinted that the Niemans were there in protest to some of the CRIMSON's business practices...