Word: sensationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recalls Heckel: "We had no patience with the impressionists, who saw the pear in the bowl as having a hundred different shades of green. For us it was a green pear-bang-in a red bowl. We wanted to shock the person who looked at the picture. Looking at one...
W. C. Fields once related the hung-over horror of awaking on New Year's Day with the fantastic impression that a manhole cover was resting on his head. "Imagine my surprise," concluded the great man, "when I reached up and found out there was a manhole cover resting...
Such crude wisecracking is perhaps not inappropriate in a nightclub act, but in a movie house-even with Frank Sinatra, an old friend of Joe's, serving up the master's material in showmanly style-it quickly produces an unpleasant sensation known to both medicine and show business...
Through the Russian Revolution the painting remained in Moscow, then mysteriously disappeared-to turn up later in Paris in the Gulbenkian Collection. By that time the painting had become a part of American folklore, and later generations, who considered the picture (if they considered it at all) about as innocuous...
Over a Page One cut of a tweedy, utterly English six-footer named Chris Powell, the headline in London's Daily Sketch trumpeted: WIN THIS MAN! HE'S A WORLD SENSATION! After a four-day buildup and a spate of pictures showing Winnable Powell, with a pipe, a...