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...Tokyo, art lovers were treated to some modernism that no one wanted to ignore. On view were more than 130 aggressively new objects, everything from paper lanterns and delicate ceramics to wildly abstract sculpture: a 10-ft.-high Centipede, something that looked like Humpty Dumpty with horns and a tail but was called Mister One Man, and something labeled Myself, which showed an almost featureless face topped by six pieces of whisk-broom straw...
There are a few errors of less significance. Not all bullfighters are "slim, tanned, and young." Rafael Ortega, still going strong in Bilbao and Barcelona, is fat, pasty, and forty-five. The ear and tail awards have nothing to do with crowd reaction. They are awarded by the President and judges. To the crowd, the President and Judges often seem deliberately perverse...
Earlier this month, he was the object of a wide sea-air search when he became ensnarled in the tail-end of a hurricane off Miami. He was later found safe...
...bull brush past. Finally, the matador lines up his sword as he would a billiard cue and goes in for the climax. According to how the crowd reacts to his performance, the matador is allowed to retain one bull's ear, both ears, or both ears and the tail. As he struts around the ring acknowledging the appreciation of the spectators, he tosses these articles to persons in the stands. They are treasured in the same way autographed baseballs are, though they make less functional souvenirs...
...tuatara is not outstandingly intelligent; its brain, only about the size of a green pea, is hardly a brain at all. When strolling leisurely, it drags its belly and tail slowly over the ground. When chasing a spider or a grasshopper, it rears up on all four legs, like an optional four-wheel drive, and makes better speed. Most of the time tuataras are silent, but during the mating season they speak to one another with froglike croaks. Their eggs, laid in petrel burrows (tuataras eat young petrels), take a year to hatch...