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...different place than it was in 1903, Giraudoux has more than frivolity in mind. Below the surface of his comedy is the serious warning that the snowballing forces of materialism, fascism and war must be checked if the human race is to survive. When Herman's turn comes to dig into this serious core, he falls apart. His answer to the dramatic problem is a song called "Garbage," and it's not much better than the title suggests: a supposedly bitter number about the decline in beauty of refuse through the years. While it might make for some laughs...
Uncommon Elephants. Some 1,700 miles and 50 centuries removed from the Sardis dig, the Peabody group discovered a far different trove of relics and artifacts. At the base of the mound they are excavating lie the remains of a neolithic community that thrived as early as 5500 B.C. The find upsets earlier theories, which held that neolithic man had never ventured into such inhospitable surroundings. And unlike other neolithic settlements, the Peabody dig is surrounded by remnants of a mammoth wall, 7 ft. high and 20 ft. thick. Behind it the archaeologists have uncovered a series of tiny chambers...
Ackerman said that the members hope to supplement their libraries with old films provided by the film industry. "Although Hollywood has piles of these old films stored away, they are somewhat reluctant to dig them out and use them for other than commercial purposes," he said...
Cascade of Grease. In many ways, the patron saint of the exhibit is Soft Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who last year got the City of New York to hire two gravediggers to dig a hole for him in Manhattan's Central Park, then fill it in, thereby burying a nonexistent "underground sculpture." His offering this time round: a Plexiglas cube stocked with night crawlers and humus, titled Worm Earth Piece. Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss...
...anguished little girl, left hand over her eyes, right hand holding a gun pointing down at a dead white cat which lies in the street in its own blood. The whole is entitled "No Hard Felines." But, almost as if the Poonies felt this was too subtle a dig for its prospective readers (a subset of the readership of Life?, they talk in another part of the magazine about Life's "cute miscellany snapshot of somebody's noxious cocker spaniel wearing a lampshade on its head...