Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view is that his good ideas and draughtsmanship are limited by his oldfashioned, mushy medium and his refusal to stoop to symbolism...
...third supersonic bomber, the medium-range Blinder. First seen in 1957 in prototype, the production model at last week's flypast featured a new tail turret, radar and radar-jamming equipment...
...Though Pan Am retained its 30% holdings in Panair, Miranda bought up the other 70%, mostly from Panair's Brazilian directors, for an estimated $5,000,000. A self-made millionaire-he is Brazil's biggest insurance broker-elegant Celso Rocha Miranda has ordered eight French Caravelle medium-range jets to put his new enterprise on a competitive footing with rival Brazilian airlines Varig and Real...
...black and a hunchbacked woman fashion human flesh out of mysterious chemicals. At another séance, at which the spirits became very annoyed, witnesses reported that "Willie Yeats was banging his head on the table as though he had a fit, muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy, but he doubtless was not amused by the "seer" who responded: "I have a vision of a square pond, but I can see your thought, and you expect me to see an oblong pond." On another humorously humorless occasion, the poet deputed a vampire to plague...
...room for honest art, has also made more room for calculated smut, drawing a barrage of protests from parents, pastors and assorted pressure groups. Defying accusations of censorship, many have suggested some sort of adults-only classification system on the theory that movies are a special, and specially public, medium. Books present problems, too, as for instance Henry Miller's notorious Tropic of Cancer (see BOOKS). But even bestsellers have a smaller audience-and less direct impact-than any movie. Actually, the anti-Hollywood protests have been far milder than might have been expected, considering the varieties of erotica...