Word: streamers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the critics' praises, few gallery-goers were likely to see beyond the main quality of Rose's Crucifixion: its ghastliness. Rose had clothed the figure of Christ in writhing ribbons of green flesh outlined with black and lavender, dripping streamer-like gouts of purplish blood. The painting swarmed dizzyingly with abstruse symbols, many of them phallic. Christ's brow, overhanging the foreground, was an electric lamp...
Last week the unsensational Oklahoman (circ. 125,950) ran it under an eight-column streamer: IF YOU HAD A YEAR...
CAPONE MOB COMING BACK, shouted the black streamer below it. The kind of newsbreak that Howey & Co. knew how to play to the limit had come along at just the right time. Four former henchmen of Al Capone had been paroled from prison, and the Herald was sure that they -and maybe even gunplay-were due in Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent...
About the only Jeans theory which can be explained to laymen presents a possible origin of the solar system. If another star, Jeans argued mathematically, ever passed near the sun, it may have pulled out a streamer of gas. This, cooling, may have formed the planets...
What received a column and a half in Time merited one inch in the Service News. On June 6, a streamer atop the masthead on page one said, "Allied Armies Invade Continent, German Radio Claims"; and under the 12-point head, "River Front Police Reinforced," was the story: "In view of the recent disorders on the Charles River front, the Metropolitan District Police and University Yard Cops will hereafter give additional protection in that area, it was learned from Dean Hanford's office yesterday...