Word: billboarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point where the double rows of barbed wire run parallel to the West German Autobahn, the East Germans have built a huge billboard on their side of the line, on which is drawn a likeness of the great German writer and the slogan: "Anti-bolshevism is the underlying madness of the 20th century. - Thomas Mann...
...begun a highly effective series of Sunday afternoon talks on ABC. CBS Reports last week began its worthy three-part interview with Eisenhower (see THE NATION), and Commentator David Brinkley began sounding off on his own, opening his Journal with a mordant discussion that ranged from the U.S. outdoor billboard industry to British tabloid journalism...
With 75,000 copies sold, the record has moved onto Billboard's bestseller charts, and last week the recording company's flacks were proudly pointing out that numerous radio stations had banned Presidential Press Conference in the national interest. But it is actually only half bad. Some of the jokes are just mad enough for laughter, and Sicknik Sandy Baron does an excellent imitation of President Kennedy's cod-sent voice...
...Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev and Glenn Yarbrough, a folksinging trio called the Limeliters, have sung and quipped their way into an expanding fortune by establishing themselves as antonyms of showbiz gloss. Their concert tours (notably with Mort Sahl) have been unvaryingly successful; their most recent LP album has been on Billboard's bestseller chart for 15 weeks; they are worth $3,000 to $5,000 a week at the big blue grottoes like Basin Street East or Los Angeles' Crescendo. But they prefer to perform before college students in the afternoon. "There are no illusions in daylight," says...
...most top fine artists would work haughtily with a refuse any commercial offer or to paint any exhortatory message in it; in Poland, an easier ethic and a powerful state need for propaganda prevail. Thus the common poster, which may proclaim no loftier message than the ordinary American billboard, may bear the signature of a top artist. On display last week in the West German city of Essen were 124 posters done between 1951 and 1959 in Poland. The show has traveled all over West Germany, convincing the Germans that in this art form Poland stands as high...