Word: posterize
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...Scelba reached Modena, he got out of his car to look carefully at a poster. Under the caption "Scelba is in Emilia. He mustn't get out!" a cartoon showed a mouse with Scelba's face caught in a trap. Grimly Scelba climbed back into his car and drove on-still further into the trap...
...Notes. In the column, "This England," the magazine regularly passes on to readers with an amused smile such deadpan comments on manners & morals as "The true story of the worst criminal in London's history. An admirably ghoulish play suitable for all the family. From poster for Shepherd's Bush Empire...
Fernand Léger looks hard as flint at 69, lives in a chaotically cluttered Montparnasse studio, and has 100 pupils-most of them ex-G.I.s. Léger's own Leisure seems half daguerreotype and half poster. It shows that he himself has come a long way from the brash, machine-tooled "Tubist" abstractions of his early days. He painted it during World War II, which he spent in Manhattan. "Because of the gasoline shortage," he recalls, "the city was suddenly teeming with bikes, and I was much impressed by the many attractive girls I saw pedaling...
...service, on the Mexican border and in France, dispatching more letters to his grandfather. A veteran at 17, he lost patience with school and determined to be a writer, like O. Henry. Meanwhile, he sold shirts and newspaper subscriptions, worked as a rivet catcher in the shipyards and a poster tinter in a theater lobby. Writing furiously, he sold a story called Mad Desire to Physical Culture. (The subtitle: "Determined to die in a futile effort to make amends, love points him a better way and rekindles his desire to live...
...challenge that takes him out of his narrow parochial routine comes in a dream: he feels urged to visit a carnival performer known as "The Great Diamond," whose name he has seen on a poster. He finds a ratty little man living with a dissolute young girl. The girl asks Father Cawder to find a place in a convent for her illegitimate child; when he upbraids her, she flounces...