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Three women in yellow dance against an aqua blue set. The strength in their arms legs and head is displayed at every moment. As the drum pounds, they roll, kick and stretch out their powerful arms. Two men join them and a wailing, almost painful melody takes over. The dancers' agonizing movements mimic the music...
With both senior Co-Captains Cary Mazzone and Anita Rival in the bleachers with injuries, freshmen dominated all the Crimson's first place victories. But that wasn't enough for the aqua women to overcome a victory by the Terriers, who needed a win in the evening's final race to secure the triumph...
...like umbilical cords streaming in the treetops and kept buoyant by ulterior fans. They are fascinating. The dormitories and other buildings given over to a "main street" of shops, a moviehouse, a beauty parlor and a disco have been redone in a profusion of violet squares, vermilion triangles and aqua stars piled chockablock on orange scaffolds beside pink-and-black-striped cardboard columns. Professor Stanley Weingart of the U.S.C. business school says, "I keep waiting for Dumbo the elephant to fly out." It does put one in mind of an amusement park. Although not Disneyland so much as Coney Island...
...created by Deborah Sussman, the graphic designer in charge of all the Olympic imagery. Says Sussman: "The palette consists of unexpected, stimulating juxtapositions that instantly separate the Olympic pageantry from the everyday environment, the drabness of permanent institutions, industries, streets-hot magenta, vermilion and chrome yellow, set off by aqua. They are Mediterranean colors but also suggest Mexican markets, mariachi, Los Angeles and the Pacific...
...color also came from the uniforms of the official personnel--part of the official "dynamic color palette" chosen by the Olympic Committee for these games. "Brilliant hot magenta, bright vermillion, clear aqua, rich chrome yellow, and vivid green are the five primary Olympic Look colors," according to a promotional release...