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Lest the censor interfere, La Carátula did not make any public announcement of the show. But word seeped through the cafes. The club's membership quickly expanded. When the curtain rose on a simple cardboard backdrop depicting Bernarda Alba's village home, a capacity audience was on hand. In the front row sat the supreme censor himself, bespectacled Garcia Espina, Director General of the Theater and Cinema...
...Impossible. Up went the judges' cardboard squares, and up went a roar of approval from the crowd: Button's severest critic gave him 5.7; one judge hoisted skating's highest accolade-the "impossible" 6. Later, when all the scores of the two-day competition had been tabulated, Olympic Champion Dick Button had run away from the opposition like Citation in his prime. Button's score: 1,419.47 points out of a possible 1,537.2. Hungary's Ede Kiraly,* European champion, won second honors with...
...irritating Lear's robes were well chosen to decline in impressiveness with him, and the women's dresses were appropriate, but most of the men seemed to be wearing leather fish-scales of aprons, and many bore strange headgear. The royal crowns and coronets seemed more than usually cardboard, and the foot soldiers stood out above all others in the flaunting of some extraordinary creations that most resembled the kepis of the Foreign Legion...
...Aeply method could not be patented; it was mostly a matter of loving care in the use of old crafts. Most art-reproduction firms, Janine explained, "concentrate on color alone. But a painting has texture as well. To simulate that we use dozens of materials: cardboard, paper, stencils, canvas, silk screens . . . Sometimes we use as many as seven different processes to reproduce one original." Janine and Jean had built each blob of pigment up to the same thickness as that in the original paintings. They made as many as 600 facsimiles of each painting, sold them...
...note this down; he didn't understand it, but it sounded like an important point. There were a number of things in his pocket--a handkerchief, some matches, a spoon he had absentmindedly walked off with from supper three days before--there were also two sharp pieces of cardboard which Vag was unable to identify--he brought them out to have a look. They were two rather battered ticket stubs...