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).

  • 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.

  • In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.

  • When Lenin instituted the New Economic Policy in 1921--which permitted a limited amount of capitalist competition in order to restore some of the country's cash flow--Rodchenko and Mayakovsky became the advertising agency for many of the state's manufacturing and retail operations, which, in a sense, let them have their cake and eat it, too.


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