Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city had risen to the occasion. The Knot-Hole Gang clustered about the 200-foot high struts of the Old Grand-Dad billboard that peers down into Fenway Park. On a nearby apartment building five button-down pioneers looked out from the highest outcropping of stone, twenty-three stories above the ground. The Red Sox had inspired Bostonians to assault modern architecture and advertising--which was more than Louise Day Hicks would ever...
...Apple juice is good for you," proclaims a billboard in Budapest. "Capture time, take photographs," urges a TV commercial in Prague. "Fly by airplane," reads a Soviet poster. Rudimentary as they are by Western standards, such ads are sign and symbol that the men in the grey flannel öltöny have found a place in increasingly consumer-minded Eastern Europe...
...stretch out her 30-ft.-high banner painting for Expo 67. Ellsworth Kelly confesses that he never saw one of his large canvases all in one piece until it was put together in an exhibition. Some artists, such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, who work on the same billboard scale as James Rosenquist, have bought their own buildings...
...face, a familiar Gothic landmark in the capital, now window-dresses record emporia throughout the country. His smasheroo album is in the front ranks of Billboard's "Top LPs," sandwiched between the sound track from The Wild Angels and Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. He has made appearances on the Johnny Carson Show and Hollywood Palace, and his name will soon join Clem Kadiddlehopper's on the Red Skelton Show. At 71, Everett McKinley Dirksen, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has made the scene...
...former teacher in this case is an Englishman named Geoff Stevens, 32, who even sang along in the recording, he says, "just for a giggle." Last week Stevens' Winchester Cathedral, released only six weeks ago in the U.S., had sold 1,000,000 recordings, become No. 1 on Billboard's list of bestsellers, and made stars out of the recording "artists," a British group of young men (19 to 26) called the New Vaudeville Band. Ed Sullivan put them on his show when they arrived in the U.S. on tour recently, and Johnny Carson grabbed them...