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...brilliant, Van Gogh-like splashes of color, they show objects (mostly humans) as they might look if broken down to their cellular essentials. Likewise, they show Painter Paalen's idea of "pure spatial tensions" and "inner tensions of landscapes" (basi cally whorls and spirals). The net result: "plastic cosmogony" - which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind and body." Wolfgang Paalen not only splashes words around - he edits and publishes a slick, desperately esoteric, semiannual literary-art magazine called...
Hand & Foot. In Washington, the Army offered for sale a lot of surplus plastic foot tubs; the Navy offered some 23,350 electric buzzers...
Asserting that the fundamental cause of this war is the neglect of a sound program of teaching racial equality, the association declared that the solution of the problem lies in the children of the coming generation. "Children are plastic; they will readily accept as symbols of unity as international way of thinking in which imperialism, prejudice, insecurity, and ignorance are minimized. In appealing to older people stress should be laid upon. . . better conditions and opportunities for children...
...reconstructing external organs, Dr. Frumkin ingeniously adapts well-tried plastic surgery techniques - a tube of flesh transferred from the abdomen, a strip of cartilage from a rib. But until recently he shook his head when both testicles were destroyed. Without their hormones, he knew, his patient must inevitably be come effeminate in appearance and action - a eunuch...
...Navy announced this week that it has finally solved an old nautical problem: how to keep barnacles off the bottom of a ship. The solution: a new plastic paint which makes bottoms so slick that for at least two years no barnacle can get a foothold...