Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing to Lose. Moore's low-pressure approach may be the product of grinding backstage work with Producer Bob Banner and Chief Writer Vincent Bogart, but the end result is still the man himself. He is always the skimpy (5 ft. 6½ in.), easy-going guy who has been working at the trade of entertaining ever since high school, when his name was Thomas Garrison Morfit and he was writing a musical comedy back in Baltimore, almost 30 years ago. Even then Garry was such an accomplished gagman that a fan named F. Scott Fitzgerald came backstage...
...apparatus to oppress the people, the extremely low level of the popular classes, the crimes of Hungary," The old Auténtico Party, once Cuba's strongest, sensed an issue; in its first public declaration of the Castro era, the party raised what it called "the anti-Communist banner...
From the day that the ingenious Romans set up their first roadside bibulium in conquered Britannia, there have been pubs in England. Such emblems as the White Horse (banner of the Saxons), the Sun (badge of Richard the Lionhearted) or St. George and0 the Dragon recall a proud past. There are four pubs in Whitehall controlled by the Queen herself, and there are scores more among the island's 58,000 that are entitled to use the noble arms of ducal patrons...
Columbus, planting on American soil the banner of the Immaculate Conception, "ees shown as a youth," Dali explains in his macaronic idiom, "because thees painting represent le dream of Columbus, and youth ees le time for dreams. Other figures are monks and sailors qui come along weeth Columbus." Modestly he adds that the monk completely hidden in his cowl is actually a self-portrait. The giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians...
...interesting que I have used on le left a very realistic technique," he murmurs, waving his enameled cane, "and on le right le technique of les pointillists." Hidden among the dots and stripes on the right side is a head-down Crucifixion and its reflection through the banners of the Spanish provinces. A Paradisial egg of light at the top of the canvas contains, from the bottom up, Ferdinand and Isabella receiving Columbus, Saint Salvador, and the Virgin with the body of Christ. The tall banner on the left bears an exact and brilliant portrait of Dali's wife...