Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Tate Gallery. In Manhattan, a new portfolio appeared (The Prints of Paul Klee; Curt Valentin, $15). Its 40 etchings and lithographs proved 40 times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...
...poon-tangophone" (a cigar box and a lathe) and a "latrinophone" (a toilet seat strung with catgut, which went over big on a European U.S.O. tour). To record his Hotchi Cornia, Spike rented a goat that "naa-a-a-ed" when he twisted its tail. In Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep, the Slickers ripped apart an old auto. When these musical effects proved inadequate to Spike's demands, the band members crunched English walnuts in their teeth, ripped mustard plasters off each other's chests. They did it with considerable and conscious musicianship. Says Spike: "They...
Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when a friendly guard let him peep through a telescope...
...succeed because they are more than ballyhoo. Rose is compared interminably with Barnum, but unlike Barnum he does not play the public for a sucker; he gives his customers their money's worth. The World's Fair Aquacade, as Rose said, "spelled the death of the 25? peep show by giving good entertainment for 15? more." And Rose is never afraid of splurging. He casts whole bakeries upon the waters, knowing that the more bread there is, the more dough it contains...
...that would peep and botanize...