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Among them are Sea Birds (from the Metropolitan Museum) and Light in Autumn (opposite). Both have the flawed-crystal complexity, the hint of cubism applied to open air, that has become his trademark. Thon builds each composition on a lattice of smudgy rectangles, laid in partly with putty knives, and laces his sharp, delicate outlines well into the lattice. An extraordinary yet unobtrusive richness of texture results. More important, Thon's technique stretches and modifies the vision of the viewer. In his pictures, air has peculiar sparkle and density, and the things it seems to enclose look fragile...
...patrons in the orchestra seats cheered, and the drummer began his slow off-beat as the first of the girls, Peggy O'Grady, casually undressed. Then came Marie Voe and Nony ("A Bit of TNT from Paree"). Queen of them all was a blonde relentlessly billed as "Miss Crystal Star," who took almost ten minutes to give her G-string...
...Miss Crystal Star was performing for a special audience. The 50 men and women (among them: a biochemist, two nurses, several housewives) were no ordinary Minskyites. They were members of a class in show business from Manhattan's mercurial New School for Social Research ("where serious-minded and mature students may gather to carry on their studies in a spirit of scientific inquiry"), founded in 1919 by such scholars as Charles Beard and James Harvey Robinson. The students had come across the Hudson to Newark (theater burlesque is banned in New York City) to study one phase of their...
...Truth is not a crystal one can put in one's pocket, but an infinite fluid into which one falls headlong...
...rulers were as strongly pro-U.S. as Ali, so Washington seemed as calm as Karachi. And as for Ali, now a figurehead Prime Minister, he finally called in reporters and said he was loyal to Ghulam. What would he do next? "I must gaze into a crystal I brought back from the U.S.," said Mohammed Ali, producing a miniature eight ball...