Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently a photographer asked Duchamp to sign his autograph book. He explained to the artist that, since those he photographs are his hosts, it was a sort of a guest book in reverse. Duchamp whipped out a pen and, writing backwards, jotted down his signature in a perfect mirror image. For what it is worth, this was also Leonardo da Vinci's favorite device, in his notebooks, for keeping his secrets to himself...
...decentralization: individual freedom and "live spontaneity" in daily life. Deploring the "rehearsed informality" of Soviet society, Svetlanov described a typical "poetry night" in a Moscow cafe. "After the poets are through reciting," he wrote, "they sit at a separate table and talk animatedly among themselves. A couple of autograph hunters approach timidly. The jazz band plays a few dances. It is all so boring, terribly boring...
...attention has been drawn to your report [Nov. 27] entitled "The Princely Pauper." There is no truth whatever in the story that Prince Charles has sold his autograph at any time. There is also no truth whatever in the story that he sold his composition book to a classmate. In the first place, he is intelligent and old enough to realize how embarrassing this would turn out to be. and second, he is only too conscious of the interest of the press in anything to do with himself and his family. The suggestion that his parents keep him so short...
Broken English. At an earlier school, he had made rather a good thing of selling his autograph to all comers at 35?, until officials put a stop to it and returned the money. According to newspaper reports, when Prince Charles ran short last December, he sold his composition book containing four school-assigned essays to a classmate for $4. Gordonstoun's Headmaster Robert Chew says there is "absolutely no truth" to the report. But the classmate did get the copybook and sold it for $20 to a Gordonstoun alumnus who did even better by selling it to an Aberdeen...
Despite the change, Keating has been unable to eliminate the image of the past. He is not the magnetic, crowd-drawing candidate that Bobby Kennedy is. Keating can walk from Madison Square Garden onto Seventh Avenue without a soul stopping him to shake his hand or ask for his autograph. He can go to a state Baptist convention in the Bronx to find that scarcely 100 people have showed up to hear him in a hall that would seat four or five times that many...