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Certainly Eduardo Chillida restrains the knotty nature of his wooden sculpture (see over page), and Antonio Saura's Brigitte Bardot is unsentimental. Says Saura, 36: "When I throw a blob of paint on my canvas, I am committing a rape. When I work I become a kind of monster." There is violence, a seething impasto in whorls of dark color, the suggestion of hot, bubbling blood. Like the peeling, crumbling walls of the Cuenca museum itself, Spain's informalists, such as Luis Feito, present a modern vision of ancient agonies bred in the scorching sun. They convey...
Dylan makes this monster function among five-stress lines, inflated by its 17 syllables to of hysteria...
...Atomic Energy Commission found traces of lithium 6, a thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered by missile warheads...
...city after city, groups of the poor began demanding outright control of anti-poverty programs. Concluded one congressional aide: "We've funded a monster in community action. The programs are a bunch of Boston Tea Parties all around the country. They're creating a third force...
With the SST in the offing, the monster passenger plane such as the 747 is considered by some to be little more than an interim aircraft. Pan American clearly had this in mind when it specified that Boeing construct its 747 planes strong enough to be converted into cargo carriers. Actually, the 747 and the SST will likely complement each other. For passengers who want to fly a long distance in a supersonic hurry, the SST will be available at premium rates; but such will be the low operating costs of the 747 that a customer who is willing...