Word: brande
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Like the Big Three of Mexico's revolutionary art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros), David thought painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David...
What made the job a designer's dream was the fact that few of Unilever's products had shucked their plain-paper wrappings of World War II. Almost always, a designer has to compromise his ideas with the maker's notions of indispensable, brand-identifying trimmings. For Unilever, French-born Raymond Loewy could shoot the works. His terms, as usual, were cost (for the man-hours and materials of his 200-man office, $100,000-a-month payroll) plus an unrevealed annual retainer. On past jobs, the retainer has run from...
Last week, the special brand of Communist oblivion reserved for those no longer useful caught up with Tildy. His son-in-law, pudgy Victor Chornoky, recent minister to Egypt, was arrested on charges of treason and espionage. Tiny (5 ft. 4 in.), timorous Tildy, an ex-baron, an ex-Calvinist minister, said: "I can no longer expect the confidence of the Hungarian people, because of his [ Chornoky's] great crimes." Tildy resigned...
Communism-U.S. Brand, an ambitious hour-long documentary networked by ABC one night this week, led off with this shocker from the U.S. Communist Party's oath of allegiance, never wavered from its main theme: "The evidence will be ours, the conclusions must be yours...
Communism-U.S. Brand was the fifth in an irregular series of documentaries produced by ABC, all under the supervision of Saudek. Others so far: Schoolteacher-1047 (in three parts) on public education; Slums (in two parts) on substandard housing; 1960? Jiminy Cricket, on America's future needs and resources; and VD, on the problem of social diseases. Saudek's next for ABC: The Marshall Plan, a ¹½hour television documentary scheduled for fall. Says Saudek: "I hope it will be completely compelling...