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Last week, thanks to wide newspaper and radio coverage, Melancholia was the best-known abstraction in Canada. Lealess accepted two U.S. television bids, including an offer to appear with his masterpiece on We, the People. He could also boast a blurb for his painting from an expert who knew what it was. Said Jerry Morris, curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery: "This accidental doodle can be regarded as a work of art worthy of serious criticism on two levels. The artists cleaning their brushes may either consciously or unconsciously contribute to this form and selection by the placing of their...
...Bible's most flaming story of transgression ... A tremendous cast of thousands recreate a world of passion and fire!" This kind of overheated advertising blurb (for David and Bathsheba), and the kind of movie it is designed to sell, goaded Britain's leftish-highbrow weekly New Statesman and Nation into inviting its readers to invent puffs for other cinematic possibilities in the Old Testament. Last week Hollywood tittered a little self-consciously at the results...
...recruiting blurb for the Army, the picture is top-notch. The "I" of the title turns out to be Uncle Sam, of all people. All the able-bodied men of draft age and a little bit over who appear in the film sooner or later wind up in the services, feeling extremely noble about it all. Really fills you with spirit...
...more than half a century he kept a large audience laughing with his poems, literary satires and essays which he illustrated himself (Are You a Bromide?; Look Eleven Years Younger) and his word definitions (Burgess Unabridged). Some of his own coinages have become firmly fixed in the American language: blurb ("self-praise; to make a noise like a publisher"); bromide (trite saying); and goop (child with beastly manners). A few that never caught on: ivog ("food on the face; unconscious adornment of the person"); slub ("a mild indisposition which does not incapacitate"); quoob ("a person or thing obviously...
...publicity blurb recently issued by the "Lonesome Gal's" manager claims the "honey-voiced disc jockey has entwined herself with the Ivy League, and is a detriment to studying...