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Bernheimer smiles nervously with long triangular teeth stained at the top, and speaks through them with a thick, breathy German accent. When asked how he authenticates such a wide variety of objects, he quickly retorts, "How does a doctor know his patient is sick...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: There's No Business Like . . . | 5/22/1974 | See Source »

...other--less challenging--toys are the idiot stick, a contraption composed of two sticks, designed simply to make somebody think there is a rubber band connecting the two, when there's not. Then there's the mountain I.Q. test, a triangular board with pegs in it that have to move about. These items all sell for about two dollars...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Pennies for the Old Guy | 5/17/1974 | See Source »

...great outdoors he could handle with ease and pleasure was the sea -itself flat, rotating upward to face the viewer like a blue polygonal tablecloth -framed in the shuttered terrace door of a villa on the Côte d'Azur and bearing a yacht's triangular sails the way a folded napkin might sit on a table. It is this still-life sea, a geometrical image of repose and wellbeing, that suffuses some of Gris's finest still lifes, like the View of the Bay (see color overleaf), with its firmly composed foreground of earth-colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eminence Gris | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...Green squad arrives at Harvard today with one of the foremost javelin artists in the East--sophomore Skip Cummins. The New England intercollegiate record holder, Cummins placed second at the Penn Relays last weekend, and has already uncorked a throw of 246 ft. 10 in. in a triangular meet with Northeastern and Boston University...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Big Green Cindermen Invade Harvard; Crimson Thinclads Have Little to Fear | 4/30/1974 | See Source »

...last week's triangular meet, Yale succumbed to Army, 103-64, but still kept ahead of the floundering Lions, who netted 24 points...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Thinclads to Battle Hapless Elis Today | 4/23/1974 | See Source »

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