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...Revolution. At the penultimate performance, an outfit called Le Groupe Panique smashed a huge plaster reproduction of Rodin's Thinker into smithereens, spilling torrents of black ink out of plastic bags. Then, while a girl twisted the arms, legs and heads from plastic dolls, another girl stood by beatifically as a grave-faced artist shaved her groin. Later, Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoned his latest work while a naked couple made love vertically in a burlap bag, black light playing on their shoulders. "I should stop it," moaned Director Davis, "but if I do, there will be 28 times...
...ducted 7-ft. fans that the X-22A uses as props are a futuristic blend of modern metallurgy and plastic engineering-fiber-glass blades with steel cores and nickel edges. The power behind those fans is a Rube Goldberg blend of engineering-four turbojet engines feeding a total of ten different gearboxes. The barrel-like ducts, along with their -big props, can be rotated by separate hydraulic motors. With the ducts horizontal and the props pointing forward, the X-22A should be capable of more than 300 m.p.h. in level flight; with ducts rotated to a vertical position, the ship...
...Baylor University's professor of surgery have operated on more than 10,000 human hearts and arteries. From the far corners of the earth the great and the humble have traveled to Texas to have Surgeon DeBakey patch up their arteries with Dacron or implant artificial valves of plastic and sophisticated alloys in their hearts...
Invitations to New York openings now must be art works themselves: invisible-ink posters, a kaleidoscope rattling full of the artist's favorite images, plastic ice cubes filled with bolts or ball bearings, a signed shopping bag for a group show of what artists collect. It takes at least that much to entice jaded connoisseurs away from their collections of old Batman comic books and portable ant colonies. Meanwhile, the artists were busy nailing, gluing and boxing together things that are neither...
...newspapers. With a satellite network to gather information for the editors and the same network to transmit that information to subscribers, an improved version of office copying machines may soon be hooked to home TV sets to make high-quality reproduction of text and pictures on rolls of reusable plastic...