Word: postering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nigger," he screamed at Norton, in a meeting room at Grossinger's hotel. "You a yellow nigger. And your movies are bad." Ali lifted a poster displaying a photo of Norton that had appeared in the Village Voice. Posed next to a sink, Norton wore only a jock...
...guilty verdicts later, Representative Allan T. Howe (D-Utah) is still running for reelection in Utah's Second Congressional District. That district includes all of Salt Lake City, but for a while after Howe's arrest June 12 the only Howe campaign poster in town was on a corner of West Second South: some pranksters placed it across the street from the parking lot where Howe first met the two women...
...nouveau was short, about two decades; its climax was the turn of the century, in 1900. But in that brief time the look of Western capitals-and especially their bourgeois interiors-was utterly transformed by architects led by Victor Horta and Hector Guimard, designer of the Paris Metro entrances; poster artists like Privat Livemont and Alphonse Mucha; designers of jewelry like René Lalique; glassmakers and ceramists like Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gallé and Felix Bracquemond. A new style of luxury art, the last great mannerism, had been found. Because of a hostility to "applied" as against "high...
...sense, art nouveau invented female chic in the popular arts. Not since the 16th century mannerists had there been such a plethora of delicately icy women as now appeared on that new form, the advertising poster. Mucha, a Czech émigré who became Sarah Bernhardt's court artist, and followers like Privat Livemont helped change the sexual prototypes of the 19th century before they launched a million psychedelic posters in the late 20th...
...movie On the Beach. French Tricolors flutter unattended in the breeze. The traffic lights are still on, but jammed on red or green. Goats wander the streets and chained dogs howl in hunger. Others, having broken their bonds, forage in the grounds of the Saint-Claude Hospital. A large poster in Basse-Terre announces that the Tivoli Cinema is showing Hell Is Empty. Yet in the town of Saint-Claude, halfway up the slopes, there remains one elderly couple that refuses to leave. Says Dorome Cherize, 61, as she munches on a mango: "I stay here till...