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Unseen Goddesses. In listing the lenders to the show, Director Rene d'Harnoncourt wound up "thanking most of all an old friend, Pablo Picasso himself." And well he might, for 90% of the sculptures, from massive bronzes to toy stick figures carved to amuse children, comes from Picasso's own collection. As the throngs who jammed the show's opening days agreed, they indeed make a diverting display. Though Picasso may consider them doodles, they are clearly the doodles of genius. They reflect a fantastic fertility of invention, a sculptural technique to match every...
...controlled and repeated, but cannot be explained away as an aberration of probability theory, the very tour de force this uncomfortable science needs so badly. Unlike Mumler, Serios represents a phenomenon we can and should investigate. The question of the reality of his powers is not an intellectual toy, but an issue of immediate importance, for if those powers are real, nothing can ever be quite the same again. If Ted Serios can mentally cause or influence the production of images on Polaroid Land film, then the traditional divisions of mind and matter, the life of the mind...
...group ranges from makers of garden tools, shoes and carpeting to a London manufacturer of crossbows and another that makes 10-ft.-tall toy elephants that move on battery power and cost $10,000 apiece. Heald warns each of his clients that, elephants and crossbows excepted, the days of snob appeal in the U.S. are over. "It is no longer enough to sell an item on the fact that it is made in Britain," says Heald...
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. With impassive clarity, Freelance Journalist Massie details the tragedy of the last of the Romanovs, Czar Nicholas II and his wife, two innocents in a disintegrating toy world...
...Toy World. Nicky was the Czar, but the official classes and the police governed. At the center of the administrative web, Nicky and Alicky lived in a cocoon of preposterous protocol unchanged in a single item since Catherine the Great. Of pogroms and general misery, Nicky knew only what he was told. Of the good features of Russian life-the upsurge of national genius in fiction, poetry and science-he knew little, and what little he did know he did not like. His sole success was in contriving some sort of private life for himself and Alicky. At Czarskoe Selo...