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...spectacular dollhouse, chariots, dancers, spear bearers, and potentates in braided beards are framed betwixt potbellied columns. Atop them trumpet curly-trunked elephants, seated like corpulent Hollywood-style brokers at a banquet. Playful, punning, and still a sophisticated commentary, it is, like most of Red Grooms's art, a toy for adults...
...backbone slapped into shape in the men's washup; Andrews placidly playing croquet on his front lawn under the snout of an anti-aircraft battery. The film is marred by wearisome repetition and by a climactic confused sea battle between miniature U.S. and Japanese fleets. But even toy battleships do not seriously impede the progress of a slick, fast-moving entertainment aswarm with characters who seem quick-witted, courageous, and just enough larger than life to justify another skirmish in the tired old Pacific...
Espionage is heaviest in the electronics, chemical, drug, petroleum and toy industries, but some of it goes on almost everywhere. In a Harvard business-school survey of executives, 25% replied that "spying or other types of undercover information collection had recently been discovered" in their industry; the survey also found that executives under 50 are less concerned than their elders about the ethics of pirating and spying. Some firms go so far as to hire professional spies, plant informers inside other companies, bribe or blackmail employees for information, tap telephones, even sort rubbish. "I'm picking up a couple...
...hundred metronomes went ticktack, ticktack during the 15-minute performance of Györgi Ligeti's composition, Poème Symphonique. A toy gun popped, a yellow umbrella flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside...
...that bygone era when Newton could conceive of the solar system as a kind of eternal clockwork, and most people thought of the social system in much the same terms, a favorite toy for grownups was the sort of music box in which tiny lords and ladies, shepherds and shepherdesses perform an elaborate, unchanging dance. Portuguese Author Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young...