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...addition, Marshack said that engravings on a five inch section of an ox rib, in 135,000 B.C. during the Achevlian period, were of "exactly the same kind" as those during the Paleolithie period...
...seem more accessible to her people and less remote from reality. Perhaps the Queen's most significant attempt to take the mystery out of monarchy was her sanctioning of a candid, 1¾-hour television documentary showing how she and her flock behaved in private. Although still every inch a Queen, she has projected the image of a modestly attractive matron whom anybody would be proud to have as an aunt. That is, if she were not, by dint of birth and the abdication of an uncle, tied up with the responsibilities of the world's most prestigious...
...everyday use. There is no way of using any of the Chair Transformations that Samaras made in 1969-70; one cannot sit on a cage of plastic flowers, or a chair of white formica which, halfway, turns into a mess of varicolored wool, or a seat with a five-inch spike rising from its exact center...
...funny as well as fashionable. One of the best of American mimes, Goslar is a dumpling of a woman with a turned-up nose and a turned-down figure that often resembles a lightly squeezed tube of toothpaste. Gnome is where her heart is, especially when spoofing flowers, inch-worms and swishy ballet masters, or imitating a katydid rubbing its legs (Splendor in the Grass). When four of her dancers somehow managed to portray a cowardly lion encountering an equally cowardly clown in a cage (Circus Scene), it became clear that she is not the only one who wears...
...sentimentality and fear of ridicule. One of the funnier episodes in Bach's life was the moment a little over two years ago when Captain Richard Bach quit the Iowa Air Guard ?and the weekend jet flying he loved ?rather than trim his mustache one-quarter inch at each end and so comply with a new directive against "bushy-appearing" upper lips. Most of Ottumwa sympathized with Bach on that horrendous issue. But not long afterward he scandalized his congregation by withdrawing from the Church of Christ, Scientist, not because he disagrees with much of its teaching...