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...entered a labyrinth on the island of Crete to slay the monstrous Minotaur. In the pavilion the labyrinth is evoked by a series of eerie corridors and chambers, including one auditorium where audiences peer down from galleries on a swimming pool-sized screen. At the same time, an oblong screen, 38 ft. high, confronts them at eye level. Sometimes Labyrinth uses the two screens to show off: a girl on the far screen throws a bit of bread away; it lands with a splash on the shimmering pond of the bottom screen. Most often it is employed to generate vertigo...
...upper-terrace garden of the Museum of Modern Art, Levine and a cadre of workmen had constructed something called The Star Garden. At the corners of an open 40-ft.-square area were four separate oblong bubbles, each 7 ft. high, and 16 ft. on each side, made of a clear, fire-retardant plastic. The visitor was invited to walk between instead of around these bubbles. The process was supposed to induce "giddiness" and "weightlessness," which .in turn would make the viewer feel like a star in outer space...
...angrily, refused to sign a proclamation praising the coup and calling for the public's cooperation. He also refused to agree to the formation of a new government. Later that morning, Constantine drove to the defense ministry building in Athens that Greeks call the Pentagon (even though it is oblong). There he spent the rest of the day trying to persuade officers loyal to him that the coup was in no one's interest and that it was a betrayal of all the things modern Greece stood for. He failed, and returned despondently to Tatoi Palace to consult with...
...give the renascent East its cutting edge." He never reckons with the fact that the East is not an entity but a vast breeding ground of heterogeneous societies. In his own amiable way, in fact, Parkinson often seems like a man trying to stuff a quantity of awkwardly oblong facts into a resolutely square theory and hoping to come out with...
Sugarplums, College. It began last month when the Bureau of Engraving and Printing turned out 120 million oblong black, brown and yellow stamps to memorialize the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Jewelry Salesman Leonard Sherman, 38, of Irvington, N.J., bought four 50-stamp sheets of the first-day Hammarskjolds, next day took them out of his drawer for a closer look. What he saw made his hands tremble: the yellow background was printed not only off-center but upside down, so that an inverted "4?" mark appeared in ghostly white 50 times on the sheet in the wrong place...