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...Night. Marriage without love and life without meaning are examined with talent, intelligence and despair by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), whose text might be taken from W. H. Auden: "The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed, / The crack in the teacup opens / A lane to the land of the dead...
...many skills that Chairman George Maverick Bunker, 53, brought to Martin Co. nine years ago, none was more valuable than his ability to read the times. He saw no future in planemaking, remade Martin into the first aerospace-age missile and electronics company, turned losses into profits. Next his teacup told him that changeable cold-war winds made even Martin's position as the largest missilemaker precarious. So he set out to diversify, this week in one king-sized jump moved Martin into chemicals, cement, paints, furniture polish, powdered metals and adhesives. His method: merging with Chicago...
...distinguish between Wright and God, Pastor Vergis found the architect reassuring and even reverent. "Mr. Wright used to say, 'We'll all be right here, in the palm of His hand,' " recalled the pastor, cupping his hands as Wright had. In the concrete and steel teacup church that followed the pattern of his cupped hands. Wright ringed the rim with a wide balcony to bring more worshipers closer to the altar...
...What They Used to Be, and five other Workshop plays have succeeded in the big time. None of this particularly impresses Joan Littlewood. who thinks that both the West End and Broadway are "contemptible as art and unsuccessful as business." Her avowed aim is "to break up the teacup theater...
...disintegration and mortal blow with a chilling casualness that sometimes has the ring of day-after-tomorrow's newspaper. To achieve his grisly effect, he painstakingly puts together a mosaic of slight things that seem to have gone wrong in the commonplace of today-the "crack in the teacup [that] opens a lane to the land of the dead...