Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impressive Advisers. To gain academic respect, Winstead first acquired an impressive advisory board that will screen all faculty appointments and help set academic policy. Prestigious it is: members include James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation; Frederick Seitz, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Emilio Segrè, Berkeley's Nobel Laureate in physics; Athelstan Spilhaus, former dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. That kind of backing helped Winstead overcome a handicap of most new schools: lack of accreditation. Impressed by the credentials of Nova's advisers, the Southern Association...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon has adapted his boffo Broadway comedy to the screen with no loss of humor, largely owing to the retention of Original Cast Members Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick and the canny addition of Jane Fonda...
...Manhattan, Tiffany Color Inc. is experimenting with producing oil paintings from color photographs on canvases that are printed with marks imitating the artist's brush strokes. In Bavaria, West Germany, a reclusive engraver named Günther Dietz, 48, has developed a variant on the silk-screen method that has already produced copies of Rembrandt, Dufy, Chagall, Degas, Cezanne and Marini that are almost indistinguishable from the originals...
...reproduction of a Picasso in his home." In Woman with I Flowered Hat, Lichtenstein did "an oversimplification of Picasso, a kind of 'plain-pipe-racks' Picasso." Portions of the paintings were stenciled with Lichtenstein's distinctive Benday dots (applied with a toothbrush through a perforated screen) to simulate the effect of commercial printing-and also to remind the viewer that he is looking at the popular notion of a Picasso rather than the genuine article...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon has adapted his boffo Broadway comedy to the screen with no loss of humor, largely owing to the retention of Original-Cast Members Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick and the canny addition of Jane Fonda...