Word: blobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blob & Prosper. Ten years ago, at 28, he got his first art commission, a mural depicting "Children Begging" for the Amsterdam city-hall canteen. Lunching civil servants said it upset their digestion, hurled butter pats at it. The resulting controversy made him famous...
What is the earth? "The earth is a blob of matter hurtling through infinite space." The old gentleman was visibly pleased by the conciseness of the answer...
...graced with a small monthly magazine, Gadfly, which proudly bills itself as "a magazine of criticism and controversy." Much in the manner of St. George and the Dragon, the editors of Gadfly hope, with five short essays and several "artsy" commentaries, to stimulate the sleeping masses, the great lithesome Blob which is our community...
...herded into "three long coaches made of painted and carved timber." The locomotive ("abandoned before the war by an American film company [and] tied together by wire") is stoked "white-hot" by "hairy men in cloth caps who looked like Dostoevsky's publishers." At the stop of Slopsy Blob ("named after the famous Independence fighter"), the roof of the ambassadors' coach carries away most of the top of the station and lays the diplomatic heads open to a hail of fragmented woodwork. Crushed, splintered, bruised and filthy, the diplomats at last stagger forth at Zagreb to the notes...
...London Times, that everlasting defender of conventional suitability, complained that the tricorn, when worn as Sir George wanted it, presents "a formidable challenge to all but the most piquant of faces." Sir George could not understand what the uproar was about, pointed with pride to "the little gold blob," adding: "Very feminine, that...