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...Magritte, is Belgium's top surrealist and can sometimes be seen standing in his studio wearing blue jeans and sandals, slowly filling a huge canvas with vacant-eyed female nudes. Against one wall stands a row of skulls, and near them are several sets of toy trains. This is Paul Delvaux's world, and not even he, nervously wringing his hands and moving about his little house in agonizingly slow motion, can quite explain why it is what...
...keep Houston up to date with the latest fads. Last week, in the big hall designed by Mies van der Rohe that forms a wing of the original Greek revival building, he was showing something called Gorgo in New York-a papier-mache dinosaur walking over a city of toy cars and trains, a papier-mache serpent crushing a rocking horse, plus gears of a clock, a half-full milk carton, a pot of roses. It was made by Sculptress Niki de Saint-Phalle, who finished the job by spraying it white and splattering it with black by means...
...ability to phantasize that is as rich as a child's. Her art is that of the toymaker, whose creations are specifically designed to appeal to that part of the mind in which fantasy and reality seem identical. The only difference is that a toy can be outgrown; it seems doubtful that the same will soon be said of the work of Marisol...
...call to their space communication station at Andover, Maine. "She's all yours. Go play with her!" It was hardly the type of space spectacular that President Kennedy warned would soon be touched off by Soviet scientists, but even so, Telstar II turned out to be quite a toy. On its fourth swing around the earth it came within range of the great horn antenna at Andover, which transmitted a TV test pattern. From high in space, the satellite sent the pattern back crisp and clear. As Telstar swept northeast, it came within range of Europe, and solemn pictures...
Twilight Zone (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A children's toy designer (Pat Hingle), himself more child than adult, finds a way to return to the past in "The Incredible World of Horace Ford...