Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they got their first copies of the April Pageant, several newsstand distributors wired the circulation director to complain that the issue seemed to be all fouled up. On the cover was a pretty girl, but she was also on the back cover, only upside down, and with four eyes and four eyebrows. Inside Pageant were six pages (also upside down) revealing the sensational now-it-can-be-told story of "Garson Inconnu, the four-year-old who helped build the atom bomb," and other startling tales. On the other 156 pages of the magazine were conventional, right-side...
Rivera himself considers it his best mural. Critics could agree in placing it among the best-integrated and liveliest in color of Rivera's paintings, but they might reasonably complain that it takes the maestro himself to even begin to tell what it is all about...
...originally refused to release any films to the HLU "after several local theaters had protested." The action had been based on common trade practice which allows an exhibitor to complain if non theatrical 16mm showings compete with a 35mm theater...
Latvian-born Painter Hyman Bloom recites this legend in self-defense when critics complain of his fondness for painting corpses. If they persist he counters: "One must take a pessimistic view of society as it stands today...
...poor section of Madrid, Correspondent Bigart talked to the Rev. Carlos Aranjo. " 'In Madrid we can't complain,' [the Evangelical pastor] said. 'It's the national capital, and the government is anxious not to offend foreigners. But in the provinces it is quite different. Eight or ten chapels have been forced to close...