Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished from the dock above. Koerner's oil was as stark as a tabloid photo, and more disturbing. Was the Girl a successful channel swimmer, or an unsuccessful suicide? The painting offered no clue...
...Occupation owns radio stations, newspapers, and magazines in both countries. In Austria the "Wiener Kurier," a picture tabloid, and in Germany the respectable "Neue Zeitung" undersell the national journals. The Government also supports in Germany a Life-like bi-weekly called "Heute" and a literary monthly "Der Monat...
...King's Men (Columbia), a movie version of Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, is a tabloid view of a power-mad politician who has set his heart on bossing the world. The best of recent Hollywood attempts to fuse studio and documentary styles, this slam-bang indictment of grass-roots demagoguery is full of punch and color: melodramatic shots of campaign barbecues, torchlight parades, legislative brawling and backroom political deals...
With a loan from Marshall Field, Williams bought the decrepit old (105 years) monthly Southern Farmer in Montgomery, Ala. for an estimated $100,000. The tabloid-size Farmer, which looks more like a newspaper than a magazine, had long been against the New Deal and for white supremacy, delighted the "red necks" with its waving of the bloody shirt...
...evening editions, which compete chiefly with Hearst's Herald-American, young Field stuck to the old formula: readers got the tabloid mixture as before, with the big play on crime, sex and sensation...