Word: shepards
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...ALBERT SHEPARD, SERGEANT, U.S. ARMY Camp Navistar, Kuwait...
Street artists see their imagery as a counterforce to the ubiquitous world of outdoor advertising. But with its canny repetition of images, it's not so different. A handful of street artists has even parlayed the popularity of their images into design or merchandising businesses. Fifteen years ago, pioneer Shepard Fairey, 35, hit upon what may be the best known of all street-art images, a black-and-white face of the late professional wrestler Andre the Giant with OBEY printed beneath. In a world in which we all feel subordinate to something, it was the ultimate generic image...
...college campus, when, in 1968, collar popping was recognized by students in Princeton, New Jersey. They erected a vast Aztec-style temple complex dedicated to the popped collar on the site of today’s Frist Center. The conflict even extended to popular heroes of the day. Alan Shepard (from New Hampshire) popped his collar during his post-orbit press conference. John Glenn (from Ohio) did not. By the 1980s, popping one’s collar had become a fashion statement for sailors and rowers—golfers had given it up once sweater sets became all the rage...
Potential problems are not lost on a smarty like Gannon. When Captain George Cumming (Sam Shepard) announces, “Edi flies all by himself,” Gannon quickly corrects, steely-eyed, “You mean itself.” Sadly, Edi isn’t all that scary, even when he (it?) starts threatening to bomb things, because Cohen only lets his computer villain speak in “traditional computer...
...across the stage, protected by nothing but smiles and goose pimples. "It was a staggeringly inventive piece of theater at the time," says one of its twelve writers, Director Robert Benton (Places in the Heart). "It was truly shocking and erotic." (Some of the other writers: John Lennon, Sam Shepard and Jules Feiffer...