Word: cubists
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...opinion that TIME is different, not for the sake of being different, as, for example, cubist "art" is different from real art, but for the purpose of avoiding the shortcomings of other magazines...
Several years ago "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary," a German film first startled American audiences with grotesque cubist settings and futuristic power. It was the first warning that Europe would create her own moving picture traditions. The German producers of the "Last Laugh," now running in New York, felt that they could tell the whole story without subtitles...
...Cubist style may be used in the design for the Dramatic Club poster for its forthcoming play, "The Makropulos Affair", it was intimated yesterday by the club's officers in announcing the inauguration of the poster competition, set for this afternoon at 1.30 at the Dramatic Club office...
...Josef Capek, who has collaborated with his more famous brother, Karel, in the authorship and production of all his plays, including "The Makropulos Affair", is a cubist painter of note. His cubist stage designing for the production of Shelley's "Cenci" in Prague was an innovation which attracted worldwide comment...
...unsuspected power in books themselves. Nowhere does a volume look so diabolically alluring as on the shelves of a bookshop. Books of all colors, sizes, shapes, fairly leap from the tastefully arranged display tables. They shout at one in unmistakable superlatives of blurbs. On one jacket a lurid cubist decoration fairly startles the unwilling hand into the sparsely lined pocket; on another, the charming features of its young authoress entice with promises of a vicarious intimacy; on still another, the names of the great array themselves in an overwhelming aggregate of authority, making it almost a duty...