Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France there were two versions as to how Aly Khan picked up the massive shiner on his right eye. Popular version: dining at a restaurant without his usual companion of late, Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, he let his eye rove too obviously toward a nearby beauty whose husband's aim was right on target. Aly's story: "My physical instructor hit me accidentally with his head...
German sledge hammers. Recaptured, he killed two guards with a rifle butt and escaped; recaptured again a few days later by a German patrol, he managed to persuade an enemy intelligence officer that he was an Irish revolutionary whose sole aim was to get back home and be a thorn in the side of the British. "Put me on a German ship," he begged, "and send me to Ireland ... [or] let me get to Spain, and there I'll find a ship...
Swiss posters aim to please the man in the street, not just persuade him. Recognizing that posters are a public art form as well as an advertising medium the Swiss limit them to reasonable size (35 by 50 inches), restrict their display to appropriate spots, and require that they be changed every fortnight. In addition, the government encourages poster artists with an annual competition...
...Aim of all the innovations: 1) to ditch realism for abstraction in the sets, 2) to make the stern old gods of Valhalla look less like period pieces. Designer Wieland Wagner's argument: the world has changed and so must the cult of Wagner...
Sickert liked to paint people in action. "Start with a piece of furniture-a table, a chair or a bed. Relate your figures to this setting and let us have them doing something-making love, quarreling, misconducting themselves-as you please-but doing something." His aim was to catch his subject unaware, "before the fizziness in his momentary mood becomes still and flat." The fizz is still in Sickert's best paintings: his nudes resting on the rumpled bed of his dingy studio, the Sunday afternoon dejection of the middleaged, parlor-bound couple in Ennui, the ironic, over...