Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are the apple-cheeked girls in their travel-poster costumes, twirling their skirts and assorted petticoats, skipping through elaborate variations of Ring-around-a-rosie and London-Bridge-is-falling-down. There are the lordly males who do everything except side-straddle hops. They fling their bodies about the stage like bean bags-somersaulting, jackknifing, slapping their heels. Always they smile, smile, smile. It is all good fun and, despite the Slavic sameness of it all, for sheer exuberance and whoopee making the folk dancers from Eastern Europe are matchless. Americans apparently cannot get enough of them...
Besides boasting Europe's most outstanding fleshpot, the Reeperbahn, with its banks of bordellos, the good city of Hamburg has a stern ordinance against picturing nudes on public posters. So it was only natural that when the manager of the Hamburger Aussenwerbung ad agency saw that scabrous lithograph, Painter and His Model, by Marc Chagall, he flatly refused to handle it as a poster for the Chagall exhibition at the Kunsthaus Center. Unless Kunsthaus Director Eylert Spars would let him paste a paper ribbon across the model's breasts. Spars sighed, and instead of posting his 800 posters...
...could have been lifted directly from a macabre novel by Abram Tertz. In a grim government building off Pushkin Square, two Russian plainclothesmen pounded away at their prisoner with 2½ hours of questions. Why, they asked, had the young logician from the Academy of Sciences been carrying a poster that read "Respect the Soviet Constitution"? Replied the prisoner: "Is it wrong to demand respect for the constitution?" Next question: "Are you directing your demand at the Soviet rulers?" Answer: "That is your suggestion. If you feel they need this advice, let them have...
...films, beginning with Breathless (1961); and the score, which owes its beauty to Beethoven's string quarters and its effectiveness to Godard's superb timing. I've also omitted the film's verbalism. Signs and the printed word play a key part in most Godard films, from the Bogart poster of Breathless to the flashing neon lights of Alphaville, and they crop up again and again in The Married Woman. But why they are used at all is a question that only Godard could answer, and he's probably too busy shooting his eleventh film...
...composite creature secure and even vindicated. The Hofstadters and the Goldmans have all fiddled extensively with his natural and social environment, and it has remained for Christopher Lasch to lead us through his kitchen and attic and gently draw back the curtains on the family's cranky four-poster...