Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next step for Escher was to use such patterns merely as backgrounds for three-dimensional pictures. He learned to show nudes, lizards and hands looming out of the flat surface and blending back into it. The stunt points up one of Escher's chief concerns, the illusory nature of all art. "It is a very superficial picture which man creates for himself," Escher says. "Only in our thoughts do we try to animate the flatness of our images with depth. Suddenly it can become clear to us how silly we are, we maniacs of the flat image, with...
...Dallas, a woman boarding a Pioneer Air Lines DC-3 with her baby was surprised to have the stewardess present the baby with a new pair of shoes. She need not have been surprised: it was just another Pioneer sales promotion stunt. "We'll do anything for a customer," says Pioneer's Founder and Chairman William F. Long. "We'll get him a hotel room, rent him a car, lend him a horse, tend the baby, or run errands...
...perpetrators of the stunt, a Lowell and a Leverett House man thoughtfully left a note in the tower explaining how to remove the green paint with a damp...
...most persistent growths in the State House garden is the McCarthy-Dorgan proposal to outlaw Communists in Massachusetts. This has been growing for some time, and the latest bloom, H. 426, is bigger and more inclusive than ever. Some people pass it off as an annual publicity stunt, which may be correct, But Paul W. McCarthy is a clever man and he did not write H. 426 in a fit of hysteria. Despite his bill's many drawbacks, he has strong support at the State House...
...possible explanation of the letter concerns an exhibit put on last fall by the Hayden Planetarium. As a publicity stunt to attract children to the show the Planetarium offered reservations on the first rocket flight to the moon...