Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the movie ends, live entertainment takes over. Usually the headliners are subluminaries. Explains the club's poster: "Those looking for Milton Berle, Frank Sinatra, or Andy Williams, please repair to Reno." A bossa nova group called Brazil '65 and Jazz Pianist Joey Bushkin have been doing the opening honors. Couples, both invigorated and intoxicated by the rarefied air, shuffle about the floor in Pucci gowns, Marimekko shifts and madras jackets. For those who do not mind the cold (a windy 50°), there is dancing outdoors in a setting of spotlighted pines and crags. Refreshed...
...Poster. In the men's singles, the last surviving non-Chinese, Germany's Eberhard Schöler, was eliminated in the semifinals. The finalists: bowlegged, two-time Champion Chuang Tse-tung, 23, a student at Peking's University of Physical Culture (one of few schools in the world that gives a degree in Ping-Pong), and Challenger Li Fu-jung, 22, who resembles a pint-sized Gregory Peck. Li was the crowd favorite. Often laying back as far as 20 ft. from the table, he brought gasps of astonishment from the crowd...
...seems to have been a bit fixed," commented British Captain Ron Crayden as Chuang stepped up to the awards platform-world champion for the third time in a row. Rumor had it that a poster of Chuang shaking hands with Mao Tse-tung was already up in Peking...
...ladders to paste up criticisms. The soccer field was draped with clothslines to supported the flood of messages. When the public address system announced the location of especially good suggestions, the students and teachers crowded around from all over the school. The administration officials spent hours going from poster to poster, taking notes...
...Africa II (see opposite page), Rivers exquisitely sketches the features of a native, then juxtaposes it with the flimsy profiles of camels off the cigarette pack and a slunky crocodile. The result is a rough estimate of a dark continent, suggestive like an ominous travel poster, but nonetheless full of color and intrigue. In Dutch Masters and Cigars II, he is producing high comedy rather than striving for high seriousness. Art to him can be puns, quipping conceits between cigars and Rembrandt. Only a delightful puff here and there separates it from thin...