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Brown Paper Masks. Steinberg drawings are meant to be read, and over the years they have developed into an increasingly sophisticated sign language. The vignettes can be metaphysical or as simple as a curious cat peering into a number 4. Fond of visual puns, he pokes fun at the art of drawing; the artist often grows out of his own pen, winds up as a square, or worse, becomes thoroughly entangled in his own shenanigans. His masks painted on brown wrapping paper are cutting satires. "They are not caricatures," Steinberg insists. "They are the faces, the masks of the middle...
...caught in a textile machine, gets woven into 39 yards of carpeting. Together with wry homilies ("Temperate temperance is best") Holbrook includes a ghost story, a fragment from Huckleberry Finn, and passages of the purest poetry, such as a description of dawn rising on the Mississippi, a fond remembrance of Twain's youth as a riverboat pilot. It is not youth but age that is the touchstone of Holbrook's marvelously timed acting command of the role. He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts but wool-gathers them, that...
NESA's people are a sentimental lot anyway: they are fond of saying that the most magnificent electric sign in the U.S.A. stands in New York harbor, holds a torch of 19 lamps that create 13,000 watts of illumination. They had no hand in the Statue of Liberty, but they have done pretty well themselves. One member firm created the giant 474-ft. baseball Scoreboard in Houston's Astrodome, whose animated display when the Houston Astros hit one of their rare homers includes steers with the U.S. and Texas flags waving from their horns. In New York...
Parry's life will change in vital respect next year. For the first time since 1960, when he went to the University of Wales as principal of University College in Swansea, he will be living in the city. Parry is especially fond of the rural life--his favorite non-academic pastimes are sailing, fishing, and bird-watching--and he admits that "the saddest thing about leaving Wales was losing that salmon stream that flowed by my doorstep." He will, however, retain his house in Harvard, Mass., about 30 miles west of Cambridge, and continue to spend vacations, summers, and some...
Unfulfilled Plan. Rumania's cultural progress lags far behind that of its neighbors in the more popular aspects. Hungary's cocky cabarets are a fond font of Red satire and sensuality. The Budapest Night Club features sleek strippers and dexterous caricaturists, while the riverside Duna Hotel is a terminus for the 60-knot hydrofoil that plies the Danube between Budapest and Vienna, carrying 8,000 tourists a year...