Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In his high-fee portraiture and many other of his paintings of ladies, Dutch-born Paris Artist Kees Van Dongen, 83, has never made a secret of his profitable penchant to "paint women slimmer than they are and their jewels fatter." In the '20s, Dongen enhanced this effect in...
Critic Kazin blames both Tennessee sensation-mongering and Westport comedy on a secret hunger for wickedness and bohemianism found in a rich, middle-class society. But he also blames Broadway's frightened, money-grubbing drive to achieve hits at any cost. "Suddenly, the theater, born, they say, of ritual...
Masters of the Congo Jungle (International Scientific Foundation; 20th Century-Fox) is an anthropological documentary film that was sponsored by King Leopold III of Belgium and photographed in Ruanda-Urundi and the Congo by a team of German cameramen. It makes a sort of safari through the soul of primitive...
The two-week Mille Miglia of celluloid was about equally divided between films that used sex for art and films that used sex for sensation. Items:
From Six to 60. High sensation at relatively low speed and cost has turned the so-called "go kart" into the newest sensation in auto racing. Born in California three years ago, go karting has grown into a coast-to-coast sport and attracted something like 100,000 lead-footed...