Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bandage that does not stick to wounds, so that it peels off painlessly and bloodlessly, was announced by Bauer & Black. Called Telfa, it has a perforated plastic layer next to the skin...
...fame rests as much on his draftsmanship as on his wit. The rule for cartoonists is to develop an instantly recognizable style, and stick to it. By ignoring this rule Steinberg has made himself the Picasso of the profession. He can enclose what he sees in a few simple lines, like bent coat hangers, or dissolve it into a haze of dots, a la Seurat. He draws on top of photographs, and occasionally draws imitation snapshots. He can and does mimic passports, old maps, and documents with ink drawings that look fairly convincing and 100% illegible. He will make...
Director Curtis Bernhardt (The Merry Widow) has done some inspired casting: Peter Ustinov plays the Prince of Wales and Robert Morley his potty papa. These two amiable monsters, as shapelessly alike as two corpulent snails, seem to be engaged in a contest to see who can stick his long-stemmed eyeballs farthest out of his head. Morley, as the monarch who "talks to trees [and] mixes paint with his feet," is the winner by a cornea...
...buzzing about Brando's head. Day after day, the brightest color in many a gossip column was Brando blood. They called him "the male Garbo," and "a Dostoevsky version of Tom Sawyer." They built up a legend in the public mind that, true or false, is sure to stick. Where Barrymore was "The Great Profile," Valentino "The Sheik" and Gable "The King," Marlon Brando is known to millions who read about Hollywood every day as "The Slob...
Kiesler's "galaxies" are not startlingly beautiful, but they are more original than any art novelty of the past decade-including Picasso's ceramics, Giacometti's stick-sculptures, Matisse's chapel at Vence, Jackson Pollock's dribble-pictures and Juan O'Gorman's outdoor mosaics at the University of Mexico. Instead of painting single pictures, Kiesler has painted fragments of pictures, often irregularly shaped, designed to be hung in clusters according to definite geometrical schemes...