Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Innovators Jacobs and Belson took Vortex to the Brussels Fair last fall, saw a portion of their bewildered audience walk out at the first break (said Belson hopefully: "They walked out on Rite of Spring, too"). But San Franciscans have taken to Vortex so enthusiastically that they were standing in line last week to get in. Vortexmen Jacobs and Belson are confident that they have stumbled on a form that will "drag people away from TV" and beat Cinerama at its own game ("Once you've seen Lowell Thomas fly round the world, you've had it"). Their...
...France's Marcel Ayme, 56, literary art is the science of the impossible. Characters in Across Paris, a collection of twelve remarkable short stories, walk through walls, don seven-league boots, and play chess with stuffed owls. If the meanings are not always crisp and clear, the prose is. In his stories as in his novels (The Barkeep of Blemont, The Second Face) Author Ayme follows one rule: put all of life's ironies in the creative fire...
...decided to show his superiors how "positive" he was by challenging his comrades to "friendly emulation in work." He was so successful that one day he was permitted to walk to Peking for a holiday. There, he wrote a letter full of subtle hints to some relatives in Hong Kong. The relatives got the hints, later sent him a cable saying his father was dying. Lo was by now so trusted that he was allowed to go to Hong Kong...
Unharmed and unfazed, he continued his walk. He peered into parking meters, was disappointed to find out that he could not ride to the top of the Washington Monument (the elevator was under repair), sniffed at U.S. modern art at the Corcoran Gallery ("It looks like something my grandchildren might...
...merely offers solemn, almost sorrowful comments on some of the irritating incongruities of modern life. Take air travel, says Shelley, with the carefully controlled tension of a man who has already taken altogether too much. "I never have the slightest doubt about my safety in a plane until I walk into an airport terminal and realize that there is a thriving industry in this building selling life insurance policies . . . What they do by this power of suggestion is that they plant the seed of doubts into an already chicken human being...