Word: blushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the gaslight age, la belle epoque, an era doomed to end with the first shot fired at Sarajevo. The flamboyant demotic art of the poster captured this society in the first blush of its romance with technology and the full flush of its well-fed, self-confident romance with itself. Brimful of retrospection, a Paris exhibit covering the 1870-1914 flowering of poster art is making Frenchmen misty-eyed with nostalgia over the good, inexpensive, uncomplicated, sensuous old days...
Gentle, high-minded and peaceable stands the artist at his easel, mind, heart and soul intent on creation. Shrewd, suspicious and materialistic stands the artist in the marketplace, protecting his interests with a zeal that would make a pawnbroker blush. The most meaningful U.S. marketplace is the auction room at Parke-Bernet Galleries in Manhattan; and when Parke-Bernet announced for last week an end-of-season clearance sale of modern masters that promised to set prices, the art world got alert...
Generations of these canal employees have cultivated an American type of "blimpism" so blatant that even their idol, "Old Roughrider" Teddy Roosevelt, would blush with shame...
...about his (and England's) present predicament, the poor man says: "You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive." "Or like being impotent," says one Russian interrogator drily. The Englishman has the grace to blush...
...disappointing Aïda and a modest Manon. Aïda succeeded in sharing some of the opening night glitter with its $50-a-seat audience, but it was plagued by the galloping vulgarity that now and then attacks the Met's production staff. Manon appeared with a blush three nights later and, despite troubles of its own, triumphed quietly...