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Word: tins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tatlin's constructivist ideas were inspired by a visit to Paris, where he saw Pablo Picasso's cubist collages. He returned to startle Moscow in 1915 with an exhibit of totally abstract collages made of tin, piping and paper. "Scandal!" cried the critics. Tatlin responded by coining the word constructivism, indicating that his art was essentially creative rather than destructive. Malevich, Gabo and others thereupon declared themselves constructivists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: The Most Constructive | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...first to raise its prices was U.S. Steel Corp., which announced increases on the price of its tin-plate products. The President, summoning reporters to the White House, said he could countenance such "selective" increases. By contrast, he said, Bethlehem's across-the-board boosts of almost 5% would have "dire economic consequences." Said the President: "Inflation in steel is inflation for the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ONE MAN'S PRICE IS ANOTHER'S INFLATION | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

Sitting in a single-story, tin-roofed building on Saigon's river front, the five-man military court took only an hour and a half to complete the trial. Its verdict: Guilty of treason, plotting and falsely espousing the cause of peace in accordance with Communist policy. With that, South Viet Nam last week sentenced to death the entire ten-mem ber leadership of the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces, a group of South Vietnamese intellectuals and professionals formed three months ago with the announced intention of bringing peace to Viet Nam through a coalition government. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Front | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...Records. "It's not the moon in June. It's life. Sometimes it's violence and sex. That's the way it is in this world. Sometimes there's animal in it; but let's face it, we've got a lot of animal in us." The difference between Tin Pan Alley and Soul is not hard to define. A conventional tunesmith might write: "You're still near, my darling, though we're apart/ I'll hold you always in my heart." The soul singer might put it: "Baby, since you split the scene the rent's come due/ Without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: LADY SOUL SINGING IT LIKE IT IS | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...real changes began a decade ago with the gradual easing of industry censorship. Although the deviate references in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) were cooled down considerably for the screen, two years later his Suddenly Last Summer was filmed with explicit references to pederasty. In the early '60s, the central characters in both Advise and Consent and The Best Man had their political careers ruined by past homosexual experiences. But even last year, some American film makers were still shy about dealing with the subject too openly: Richard Brooks eliminated most of the overt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: Where the Boys Are | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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