Word: invention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons: "Since you don't get any money, you might as well do things that amuse you. It takes me a long time to write a piece of music -anywhere from months to years-and simple ideas would bore me before I got through. Anyway, I want to invent something I haven't heard before...
...exits, to invent a cure for clarity and lucidity which he will sell to nine leading pharmaceutical firms. Mr. Flap and General Redstone come forward...
...Harper's Bazaar, Jack Benny paid characteristic attention to a scheme for avoiding gift giving altogether. "There's a printer in Hollywood," he reported, "who makes up special cards (100 for $1.98), stating: 'A generous contribution has been made in your name to . . . etc.' You invent your own country or small province in Africa or Asia just to be safe." Even so, Benny admitted that he is sometimes seized by the urge to give a gift. "On such occasions, I try to recall those joyful words uttered by Tiny Tim when he opened his presents...
...Vinci and 22 years longer than Rembrandt. He bears the best-known name in 20th century art; yet he seeks an anonymous existence. At the age of 85, he amuses himself by taking masterpieces of the past, pulling them apart and reassembling them in his own style. Having invented or conquered style after style, he continues attacking the canvas with bull-like strength as if he were ready to invent yet another. He is, of course, Pablo Picasso, and last week in Paris he received homage by way of a vast retrospective larger than any other artist has had while...
...little relation to moviemaking, and even less to wide-screen moviemaking. Hill's idea of composing a Panavision frame is summed up in a shot of Hawaii's harbor: half a dozen ships neatly positioned in a horizontal straight line from screen left to screen right. Fortunately, unless they invent a cinemascope TV set, Late Show watchers 15 years from now will be spared 60 per cent of the screen when Hawaii is crammed into the square picture tube...