Word: ruritanian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never have heard of Steinberg, but the influence of that clear, epigrammatic line and dry wit has been felt throughout American design and illustration for almost two generations. Moreover, his motifs are almost subliminally recognizable: the wry face whose nose turns into a detachable line, the worried cats, the Ruritanian flourishes and curlicues, the apocalyptic scenes of street riots and urban breakdown, the setting of the bizarre commonplaces of American life in a cosmopolitan matrix. Such details of Steinberg's work constitute a signature and have subtly altered America for everyone who has seen them...
...cells swimming dangerously about. The romance flourishes, but so does the disease. Despite the med ical seminars and discussions about black identity, Africa, and medicine to help the poor, A Warm December is no angry social document. It is very much in the old tradition of star-crossed Ruritanian romance, with overtones of Love Story. Poitier deals with grave matters, but in such a cushy way that he makes them all seem frivolous...
...banana republic or a Balkan kingdom. On hand to greet him were a squad of White House guards caparisoned in Graustarkian dress uniforms festooned with gold braid and nipped at the waist with black leather gunbelts. The black vinyl hats trimmed in gold suggested, by turns, a Ruritanian palace guard, a Belgian customs inspector, and Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow...