Word: splash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desert at Edjelé and Hassi Mes-saoud, well-paid, sun-blackened oilmen live in air-conditioned bungalows, splash about in swimming pools-and work in temperatures up to 130°. The 70 Saharan wells already producing are expected to pump 20 million tons of oil this year through two new pipelines to the coast. The $2 billion invested thus far, by a combination of French government and private capital, is expected to produce enough oil to meet all of France's needs...
...Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash 47 windows, ink enough to splash photogenically on the embassy's pink stucco...
...painting a picture, he approaches the canvas as if it were a door to be broken into to reveal the hidden life beyond. Each line, dot or patch of color -for example, in Lent, the orange splash at the right-gives the artist a sensation and suggests the next step he must take...
...versatility takes other forms too. He dances, has written hit songs (Splish Splash), plays the vibraphone, drums and guitar, and offers between-numbers commentary that is sometimes blue and often corny. His promoters at the Hollywood pressagent firm of Rogers & Cowan lavishly plug his innate sex appeal and his intuition for showmanship, which collide onstage when Darin, fervently singing, wobbles a disengaged microphone in his hand and slides sideways in a characteristic motion that could only suggest a young Dungeness crab in trouble...
Denson, a gentle fellow beneath an irascible exterior, goes for splash in editing. At Newsweek he was generally credited with the makeup technique that makes lavish use of arrows, circles and boxes, as well as pictures that make their point by having Xs drawn across faces (to indicate a man has lost power) and the unsettling practice of blowing up a man's features by cutting off his ears or his hairline. Said Denson: "Naturally, I regret leaving Newsweek after so many satisfying years...