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Laing's new works have lost such pop overtones. Their darting shapes are abstract, fragmentary, peripheral visions of speed. The human figure is gone. Some of his titles, such as Pennon and Gyron, derive from heraldry. As to who the knights of the road are in a society that builds automobiles in the backyard and reveres them as wheeled victories, Laing lets his work speak for itself: viewers staring into the chrome will catch a glimmering reflection of themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting,Graphics: Hot-Rod Heraldry | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...wonder he says. "The appetite may sicken, and so die."); and, on the left, a two-story pavilion with Victorian gimcrackery and shades that are raised and lowered with annoying frequency (Olivia's summer resort, and last resort). In the center we have a candy-cane flagpole with pennon, and two bathhouses on wheels, with red and green stripes. Assorted persons cavort about in sailor suits or swim suits. No Illyria on earth was ever like this...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Tempest and Twelfth Night | 7/5/1960 | See Source »

Back with his Princess to the scene of the Battle of Waterloo came Prince Napoleon, 39, great-grandnephew of the Little Corporal, to visit Bonaparte's old farmhouse headquarters. They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...achieve a condition of perfect training, but it is not impossible. Coach Stevens' system of year round training, of long runs and hard workouts, is undoubtedly the only one that will insure the utmost strength in the Harvard shell. Hard work, and hard work alone, can bring the Crimson pennon fluttering in the lead at the end of a long four miles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARD WORK | 3/15/1924 | See Source »

...have grown up under the influence of Harvard, and who, interested in boating and kindred pursuits, must closely associate the magenta pennon with Harvard's success or failure, the proposal of Union College that we change our colors must have seemed not entirely devoid of that useful quality which goes by the name of cheek. And, after more sober consideration, we find reason to think that the request should be refused, if not ignored. In the first place, we think it doubtful that Union ever claimed the color before Harvard; and, even if that be the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

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