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Machine-Made Vision. The sculptor mining the modular vein who has attracted the most attention this season is Donald Judd, 39, known among minimal fans as the most severe and uncompromising of the "dumb box boys." For Judd, a box is a box is a box, and nothing more; free associations are forbidden. Judd's monumental boxes and series of boxes currently cram the warehouse-sized third floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum in a one-man show dubbed "a chilling triumph" by partisans, and "pedestals in search of a nude" by less admiring observers...
...Oxford's United Hospitals, 19 patients with a variety of clotting problems, including deep-Vein thromboses in the legs and some involving the lungs, have been treated. In at least ten, the result is cautiously reported as "satisfactory." In others, it was equivocal, but all these patients had other complicating problems. From London's Royal Postgraduate Medical School comes a report of nine patients treated, eight successfully. Most important, the Lancet notes editorially, is that Arvin may not only prevent clotting but actually help to dissolve some clots already formed...
ASPIRITUAL-TYPE piece that the Fish do runs in the same vein. "Please don't drop that H-bomb on me, drop it on yourself," Joe pleads, and then, as if to say that the only way to fight the destruction and evil and hideousness of War is to turn on, the group begins immediately to play the beautiful "Thought Dream...
...freedom of socialites in her honey-raucous voice. Clearly the voice does not belong to Anastasia. Hunter may be suggesting a parallel between Hip and High Society (the connections are not so slim, Jim, but there is no space to make them here), or perhaps some platinum vein in Anastasia's mind...
What makes the novel a little more than a flighty drag is Vidal's stylish and erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative...