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...most popular exhibits is Robert Rauschenberg's Mud Muse. It is a tank filled with sloppy, coffee-colored drillers' mud supplied from one of Teledyne's offshore oil rigs. Pipes in the floor of the tank emit air bubbles, which plop to the surface at random with a kind of lazy flatulence. The pipes in turn are controlled by an elaborate electronics system, which converts signals from taped music and random noise in the room into a pattern of air release. "I think," says Rauschenberg, "you immediately get involved with Mud Muse on a really physical, basic...
RAISE RACE RAYS RAZE: ESSAYS SINCE 1965 by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). 169 pages. Random House...
Military Fashion. The Falcons began beating demonstrators. Moments later a second wave appeared, armed with pistols, M-2 carbines and submachine guns and firing at random. All told, perhaps 1,000 Falcons joined the fray, clubbing newsmen and firing up at high buildings where they suspected cameramen might be taking pictures. "They executed their movements in military fashion," said one witness. "They were well trained in the Japanese art of fighting with bamboo staves and equipped with a radio communications system...
...even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists are still back in the middle ages translating Greek. Then there's Yale law professor Charles A. Reich (all of whose students, the Times exclaims, call him "Charley"), who reports in his book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying flesh and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the side-walk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music...
...tasted, rolled over the tongue, chewed lightly, savored and then, perhaps, not swallowed but spit discreetly into a tub of clean shavings. But what does it mean? The first dictionary to come to hand, an old Webster's, does not list caprifole at all. The unabridged Random House mentions only "caprifoliaceous: belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of plants including the honeysuckle, elder, viburnum, snowberry...