Word: pasteboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with puzzle, puzzlers could assemble pieces by color or line, put the whole thing together in jig time. Easier to win at than solitaire and less demanding than a novel, it was a relaxing remedy for rainy afternoons and hospital confinements. But that was before Springbok Editions sprung its pasteboard version of Jackson Pollock's "Convergence...
...that finished his works. His top price while alive, $10,000, soared ten times higher. Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more like a hungry walrus than like Pollock's. Few ever managed like Pollock to puncture what his favorite author Herman Melville called the "pasteboard mask" of visible reality, to pierce beyond the surface into the reasoning soul of men's minds...
Late one night last May, the three conspirators began collecting ducks. They had put 17 ducks into pasteboard cartons when suddenly a policeman interrupted. He took Lopez, Newrocky and Mrs. Hanush off to jail...
...whether hunting the Snark ("They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care:/They pursued it with forks and hope;") or playing croquet with flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as balls, the moral of the mythology is that all pretensions and dogmas turn, like the Red Queen, to pasteboard. As Dodgson wrote to one of his young friends: "If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things." No Boys. Charles Dodgson...
...Bullwinkle Show (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). PREMIERE of a comedy-variety show starring a blanket-eared, walleyed, stupid-looking, but amusing moose and other pasteboard beasts. Color...