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...treatment used for June Clark's sneezing [June 17] might be considered a sort of punitive reeducation. It recalls the advice of the Duchess in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland: "Speak roughly to your little boy,/And beat him when he sneezes:/He only does it to annoy,/ Because he knows it teases...
Artists are always busy expanding the domain of art. After all, that gives them more room to play in. This past season, the frontiers, like those of Alice's Wonderland, grew bigger and madder until it seemed that art was that which looked least like art. Andy Warhol, in an effort to blow new life into pop, floated 25 silver pillows filled with helium in a gallery. Claes Oldenberg, whose realm is the bathroom, went limp, turned out washbasins and soft toilets made of stuffed vinyl...
...character of the carpenter, a prefabrication rather obviously nailed onto a thesis. Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman but can also seem a bit of a nit, a boy rover in a working-class wonderland. Tested against cold reality, his story rings false; yet Varda gives it the aura of just-discovered truth, of a vision entirely personal and poetic...
...Virginia nears the rare chance to choose both its U.S. senators in the same year (for the first time since 1911), vote-catching in the Old Dominion has assumed an Alice in Wonderland character...
...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...