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Ionesco is a logician of the absurd. His ironies are cool and geometric, his surrealism couched in subtle refractions of the ordinary. His work benefits from a naturalistic approach that reinforces the absurdity by contrasting it. Instead, O'Horgan clobbers the play with a bladder of tacky tricks, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zoo Story | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

Joey Ferrugia is an instructor/sculptor at the studio, currently having a show at Passim coffee house. Her works are all fired clay--some utilitarian crowd-pleasing bowls and vases, others more aesthetic and esoteric. Her work is centered on the idea that geometric shapes can grow into organic bodies. One...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: ...For Whose Sake? | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

Without the camera, football would belong to the universities and the historians. With it, the game has become the most dependable branch of show business. Its cast of characters, its comedy and drama, are the envy of producers all over the world. At every performance, each player essays the impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Football: Show Business with a Kick | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

Flanagan hypothesizes that the pyramid effect occurs because the geometric shape "acts as a focus or lens, through which flows energy created by the earth's magnetic field."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Pyramid Power | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

Claims for pyramid power have yet to reach the mystical pitch that Wilhelm Reich created for his orgone box 30 years ago, but a semiserious microcult is gathering around the geometric form in which ancient Egyptians buried their pharaohs. Some experts have theorized that pyramids focused energy in a manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Pyramid Power | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

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