Example sentences for: mayakovsky

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  • 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).

  • 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).

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

  • In 1929, disillusioned by the revolution, Mayakovsky wrote a protest play about the growing repressiveness of the regime.

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


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