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Things are seldom what they seem in Indonesia. After last October's coup, rumors flew through Djakarta that President Sukarno was either dead, seriously ill, in jail or in flight. But up he bounces, like a kid's bell-bottom toy, and last month he was back issuing decrees, making speeches, and being the same old Bung. Then last week, once again, Sukarno was shoved aside by the military...
...signed up 53 major companies for Batman products, and 45 other contracts are being negotiated. The licensees make every kind of item to which a Batman insignia can be stuck, sewn or stapled. Colgate-Palmolive is marketing Batbath bubble soap. Hallmark is bringing out Batman greeting cards. Toy companies, including Mattel, Ideal, Louis Marx and Remco, are turning out Batman toys. There are Batmasks, Batcapes, Batkites, Batbuttons, Batpuppets and Batguns as well as jackets, pajamas, towels, quilts, wallets, bathing suits, lunch boxes and pencil cases with Batman insignia on them...
Mechanical Sin. The least that this spate of spies signifies, it would seem, is that ventures into venery, sadism and furious action have set an eyebrow-raising new standard for family entertainment. Kids adore the lethal, shiny toy collection. Dads happily ogle a prepotent heman, king of a computerized wonderland in which every foe can be swiftly vanquished, every voluptuous siren bedded. And women seem quite susceptible to the fantasy of being vicariously mauled by a master of the art, perhaps after flooring him with a karate wrist chop. Slapdash, comic-strip plots, more violent than suspenseful, are made into...
...dragged off to the pit of lions, we can see loafers and white blue jeans underneath his white robes. He could have at least worn sandles. The lion's costume was perhaps the most ludicrous of all. Wrapped in curling yellow fur, he looks more like a toy teddy bear than a snarlng beast. When he finally eats the plotting courtiers the actin takes place off stage anyway, so that there seems to be no reason for him to appear at all and turn a supposedly terrifying scene into something awkward and funny...
...Alexander Calder who really put movement into art," says W.J.H.G. Sandberg, former director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. The affable American's Circus of 1926 was an adult toy, perhaps, but his wind-and motor-driven mobiles that followed in the '30s became the first recognized aerial expressions of art in motion. Giacometti's Suspended Ball of 1931, Brancusi's Fish on a rotating pedestal of 1926, Thomas Wilfred's lumias of the 1930s with swimming projections of colored light-all these were what Watt's apocryphal teakettle was to the steam turbine...