Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would soon visit East Germany, Bulgaria, Communist China. Safe (so far) behind the Iron Curtain, the daughter of onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd, once famed for painting the town red at home and abroad, painted a picture of her own country with the same color, declared that "all progressive people" in the U.S. have been "liquidated" or are under surveillance by the Government...
...serves, only to make deadly double faults. Taking her time, getting more depth on her shots as her opposition faded, Althea had things all her own way. She hardly drew a hurried breath as she won, 6-3, 6-2. The first Negro to cross the tennis color line was the first lady of tennis...
...Ponti is perhaps the world's top designer, and the busiest. He put up his own pavilion to display a living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath in which every object is a product of his own imagination. The pavilion walls are of translucent vitreous cement in various colors. Inside are glass bookcases in which the books seem to float on air, tables whose color varies with the angle of view, an austere double bed. Asked to explain some of the items, blocky, bristly Ponti bubblingly obliged...
...period sets of the 1920s in Paris and Pamplona, through which these disoriented drifters pass, are gaudily authentic, and indoors or out, the color camera work (directed by Leo Tover) catches the blues of Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris, the gold of Goya in Spain's sunny streets. Against these backgrounds, the essence of Sun is played out. The difficult role of Brett's ultimate conquest, young Bullfighter Pedro Romero, is played with fierce intensity by handsome newcomer Robert Evans. In the movie's arena sequence, Actor Evans conveys Hemingway's paradoxical feeling of affection for what...
...Greeks began making the vases in the 7th century B.C. with the figures painted in solid black on the reddish clay of the vase. Details were engraved on the black figures with a sharp instrument of some sort, and white and dark red were used as accessory colors. In about 530 B.C. the red-figure technique was introduced, with the background painted black and the figures left in the original reddish color of the vase. Painter and potter worked as a team. The potter threw his shape on the wheel and handed it over to the painter...