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...world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their orthogonal emptiness is the stage for a subtle play of forms in which the way a towel's folds are echoed by the edge of a bowl and the curved iron brace of a washstand acquires an importance verging on the moral. Balthus' world is whole, and everything in it, one is persuaded, is riveted there by prolonged thought...
...engineers had long known that much of the Soviet economy was a joke, and started saying so. Typical was the protest about the construction of the Novo-Lipetsk steel mill. The plans took up 91 volumes comprising 70,000 pages, specified precisely the location of each nail, lamp or washstand-everything, in fact, except whether the project was economically sound. An engineer estimated perhaps half in jest that at the rate the paper-wafflers were multiplying, by 1980 the planning agencies might well employ every man and woman in the Soviet Union. One mathematician made the astonishing calculation that Russia...
...from 14 to 21; their terms are from one to three months. When a boy enters a center, he is stripped of personal possessions, gets a physical examination, and is assigned to a small (6 ft. by 10 ft.), freshly painted cubicle containing only a narrow cot and a washstand. From then on, his life is much like that of a military inductee. His day begins at 6:15 with 20 minutes of calisthenics, proceeds on a split-second schedule which keeps him constantly moving on the double. He is never left unsupervised. (At Kidlington there are eleven staff members...
Welcome. In one tiny chalet there was a double bed for Alf and Mary, a double-decker for the kids, a washstand and a bureau with a bouquet of flowers, but Alf, his Butlineer's badge pinned proudly to his breast, had little time to admire it all. Three gongs sounded and from overhead came a lady's voice, soft and refined as marshmallow: "This is Radio Butlin. Welcome, campers, it is now 12:45. In 15 minutes lunch will be served...
...with highbrow yeomen, including Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker and Pearl Buck. Acres and Pains, made up of 21 pieces originally published in magazines, deals sharply with such rural hazards as weekend guests, domestic animals, tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman can make a profit out of the country-by writing about...