Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became a U.S. citizen in 1941, he has resisted total Americanization, and maintains a reasonable facsimile of a British stiff upper lip. He has lost much of his Brit ish accent, but then it is not American either; it has been dubbed a "NATO accent." Always keeping an eye cocked for"what's American in America," he brings an outsider's enthusiasm to the U.S. scene, putting old landmarks in a new light. "On a cold foggy night," he wrote of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, "the bridge struts wail like the witches in Macbeth...
...heat of competition, the makeup of both papers shows more excitement than judgment: a clutter of stories thrown together without much sense of proportion. But at the same time, fewer Cleveland stories than ever before are escaping the watchful eye of the two papers. No matter which one wins the circulation battle, the ultimate winners are Cleveland's readers...
...have won their audiences through ingenuity. In New York City, Tex Antoine, head seer at WABC, puts the "sugar coating on a rather dull subject" by using Uncle Wethbee, a cartoon drawing whose mustache droops or curls according to the climate. "Half the fun," says Antoine, affixing a black eye on Uncle Wethbee, "is explaining the reason why a forecast fails"; the other half is collecting $100,000 a year for not failing too often...
...ones, including the Sylvania division of General Telephone & Electronics, Parker Pens and American Tourister Luggage. The net gain in billings was $10 million and DDB scarcely stopped to worry. Says Foote, Cone & Belding's Founder, Fairfax Cone: "We can have a cancellation tonight, without anyone batting an eye, of a $1,000,000 account. This means $150,-000 of gross income we had counted on that's gone, and there isn't a goddam thing we can do about it. We don't have any inventory to sell, we don't have a product that...
...Apollinaire's Calligrammes, and the alphabet drawings of Painter Paul Klee. According to concretism's boosters, it has attracted scores of practitioners-designers, architects, mathematicians, composers, communications theorists-everybody, it would seem, but poets. The goal, explains Concretist Ronald Gross, is "poetry designed to appeal to the eye as well as to the heart and mind. Meaning springs from the juxtaposition of fragmentation of the words or letters on the page...