Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days early in 1964, Graphics Designer Dennis Wheeler kept himself busy tearing up old TIME covers. From the bits and pieces of back issues, he pasted up a collage -a poster designed to advertise TIME'S traveling art show of original cover portraits. But TIME'S editors were not quite satisfied with the result of his assault on other artists' visions of various personalities. "My God," said one critic, "he ripped Senator Javits right in half...
...Pratt Institute, he went to work for LIFE. While there, he designed the series of advertisements that showed the LIFE logotype cutout of a long catalogue of items: IBM cards, theater tickets, miniature flags. Those Wheeler cutouts are now in the collections of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
...heckling is a sometime thing. The French do not even have a word for it. In Japan, speakers were once measured by their ability to stare protesters down, but heckling has become rare since World War II. Heckling is most common in Britain, where it is something of an art, designed to test a speaker's combativeness and quickness of wit. Appropriately, the word comes from the Middle English "hekele," to tease or comb flax, or broadly "to tease with questions...
...LIFE, who has had access to all company archives and to the memories of almost all of the people involved. What emerges is in part a portrait of Luce's working life, with a few reflections of his private life. More than that, what emerges is the art, craft and business of a particular kind of journalism. Elson opens his account at a point when TIME was a brash, almost absurdly ambitious experiment. He closes it when the magazine, now the eldest in a family that included FORTUNE, LIFE, The March of Time and other enterprises, had become important...
...exactly what the limits were and how he felt about things") and ingenious about rigging a staircase for children to climb up on the examining table by themselves ("The kids loved it"). But Michael feels that the main thrust for his career came from his own youthful enthusiasm for art and science museums. When he became director of his museum six years ago, he staged the kind of exhibit that would have' fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured a cross section of a city street. Children entered through a sewer pipe, hunched past...