Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polar icecap to the Mexican border lies a vast and wondrously intricate system of aerial defenses. Built over a period of nine years at a cost of more than $18 billion, based upon radar networks within networks electronically tied to the most modern systems of detection and interception (see color pages), it was never considered foolproof against penetration. A defense in depth, it was designed to-and will-limit to a minimum the breakthroughs of Soviet long-range bombers coming to pour nuclear destruction...
...while the dead man's family try to hush things up and cope with the actual painter-and potential blackmailer. Then it turns out that there was also a second painter. And, for that matter, a third-and a fourth. Though Coward has carefully varied the age, sex, color and nationality of the four daubers, their appearances seem curiously alike...
...money champion up to now, Gone With the Wind ($33.5 million since 1939), will soon be outdistanced. After some 40 years of moviemaking, DeMille's skilled old hand once again blends, to the public's obvious liking, an unbeatable mixture of color, bigness, heroics, sex and oldtime religion...
...past, there is a soloist: young Rufus Follet, who plays a lighthearted, vagrant air in counterpoint to the heavier orchestration. Death, to Rufus, is scarcely more complex than the other riddles flung at him each waking day-the nagging puzzle of why he should not speak about the black color of a Negro maid's skin; or why the older boys on their way to school solemnly ask his name and then go into fits of inexplicable laughter; or why a woman will suddenly become so very fat; or who is God. The boy's sense of loss...
...only that she must escape the maze of greed that Threatens to trap her. Refusing her father's money, the young innocent rushes to her lover, who promptly walks out on her when he hears of her incredible folly in spurning a fortune. The book's prevailing color is grey; no touch of humor is added to lend palatability to its provincial harshness. The rewards lie in a firm, penetrating style, a relentless storyteller's determination to pursue the shabby impulses of humanity even if they lead to tragedy...