Word: unreality
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...Penthouse, begun in Britain, is an earthy and unabashed imitator with a European accent that has more than doubled its U.S. circulation to 2,000,000 in the past year. Penthouse Pets obviously glory in showing off their buxom bodies, moles and all, while Playboy's Playmates seem unreal, plasticized and antiseptic. Penthouse is pitched more heavily to the young, while one-third of Playboy's readership is now over...
...Unreal. Sprague learned some of his tireless approach from his parents, both psychiatrists, who taught him to probe and analyze. Then, during World War II, he learned an unforgettable lesson when Navy shipmates tried to rescue some drifting Japanese sailors and were riddled by Japanese gunfire. "You've got to have a society," Sprague says now, "in which people who transgress will be caught and punished." Even after the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty, he continues to support it, and last week the Philadelphia D.A.'s office proposed amendments to state law that they...
Sprague almost left the law before really getting started: "I went to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, but I hated it. It was unreal. Then I got a job as a public defender. That took me into court, and I loved it. The courtroom was something magic. It was like a play, unfolding, developing...
...thing had to do it through the figure. Well, I just happen to be saying what I want to say through a car." A student of transcendental meditation, he describes the car as his mantra: a means to self-knowledge through prolonged application of craft to an unreal problem. It represents a process, not a solution. "Potts," says Art Critic Thomas Garver, in the catalogue introducing the car, "regards the true work of art to be the artist himself. The car is not a public object but a building way to probe more deeply into himself...
...11/10 in. by 4 1/5 in. by 7 in.) to fit into the breast pocket of a man's jacket. It weighs 26 oz. and is completely automatic, even to film advancement, which has had to be done manually (and sometimes faultily) in all previous models. The most unreal thing about the SX-70 is its film, which will cost no more than current Polaroid color film (about 45? per picture). Flicking out of the camera only 1.2 sec. after exposure, the pictures at first are a mass of opaque blue-gray, then slowly develop within four minutes...