Example sentences for: mayakovsky

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  • That figure is the protagonist of the once-famous play, The Bedbug by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russia's great futurist poet and Bolshevik propagandist.

  • Mayakovsky's scowling, angular, shaven-headed poetic boxer's mug was a dramatic advertising image unto itself, and Rodchenko's six portraits of him made him an icon (to be recycled endlessly in Soviet propaganda after Mayakovsky's dubious 1930 suicide, an act which even if self-willed was certainly nudged along by the state).

  • Rodchenko's designs--in red and black, crisply diagonal, filled with visual hooks and slams--are still being aped today, and some of them manage to look more modern than anything around now (Mayakovsky's apparently catchy rhymed slogans, unfortunately, do not translate well).

  • The sum of these unholy things, Mayakovsky suggests, is the feeding of his soul, the making of his poetry.

  • On the other hand, the horrified cries of Mayakovsky's authoritarians will be ringing in Joe Camel's ears as he roars out of town for the last time on his big motorcycle.


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