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...signed on as an illustrator for the National Police Gazette. To his delight, one day he was assigned to sketch the circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which he sat performing like some child Gargantua for such luminaries as Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, and Jean Cocteau...
...prologue to an earlier Marlowe play, The Jew of Malta, the playwright declared: I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Faustus holds the same views, but this time the play moves in exactly the opposite direction. Here religion is a dominion of implacable law reducing man and his will to a broken toy; and it is knowledge that is tainted with evil. Through Satan's agent Mephistophilis (James Ray), the learned Dr. Faustus (Lou Antonio) makes a pact with the Devil. He wills his soul to eternal damnation for 24 years...
Every kid who has ever puffed out his cheeks blowing up a sausage-shaped toy balloon has marveled that anything as immaterial as air can make the thin rubber so rigid and strong. This week the Bauer & Black division of Boston's Kendall Co. is putting on the general market an inflatable splint based on the same simple principle, but made of heavy, transparent plastic...
Premier Nguyen Khanh is like a kid's bell-bottom punch toy. No sooner is he knocked flat than he's up and grinning, ready for another foul blow. Last week the swat of a rebellious fist seemed to knock Khanh cockeyed, but within moments he was back on his feet-ready to be knocked down again...
...profiteers-and threatens Khanh's ouster if those rather sweeping conditions are not met. But who is to say who, in all of South Viet Nam, is "corrupt, dishonest and counter-revolutionary"? Now, in addition to the steady pressures exerted on him by Catholics and Buddhists, Punch Toy Premier Khanh faces the even more random fists of self-seeking Young Turks...