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...Jugendstil 30 years before its prime. Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired by Boucher, and Ludwig's magnificent throne, a Beardsleyan Oriental divan backed by three haughty, blue-and-green-enameled peacocks...
...Angeles' Ron Davis maintains that his 4-in.-thick slabs of tutti-frutti-colored fiber glass, cast in glossy, translucent and sometimes opalescent layers, are meant to be "about" nothing but "what colors are and where you put them." If a visitor suggests that Davis' flat shapes seem to hang away from the wall and look very much like twelve-sided swimming pools, Davis will protest that all he meant to depict was "the illusion of a dodecahedron." What makes the dodecahedron distinctively different is that it is shown as though seen from far, far above. The effect...
Misspent Youth. To their amusement, only Pennsylvania could recall the famous 1946 Ajax song ("Use Ajax, bumm, bumm, the foaming cleanser . . . "). To the question, "What flavor ice cream did Harpo Marx sell in A Day at the Races", the judges ruled out Princeton's "tutti-frutti" for Yale's more colorful and accurate "tootsi-frootsi...
...Boston's H. P. Hood & Sons, a computer figures out the right mix of fruit that goes into the company's tutti-frutti ice cream, instructs the ice cream-making machinery just what grade and quantity of ice cream to make. In the kitchens of Sara Lee bakeries, another one stores recipes and orders the proper amount of butter and eggs; soon, it will also control the cake mixes, ensure that they are baked at the right temperature, then automatically test their quality, setting up electronic protests if it has been disobeyed. A General Electric computer is scheduling...
...atmosphere, but everyone knew these scoffers were only the frustrated, the timid, the jealous and the lazy. All the world liked jolly-ups, and all the world was jolly. No one feared, for the jolly-up was a fact of life, solid and enduring, like Lamont and tutti-frutti. Now it appears that nothing is safe from the forces of evil...