Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patronizing vulgarity with which Capra jazzed up the lesson threw a blight on scientific footage that, in itself, was as good as anything of its kind ever televised. Especially effective in color, these sequences showed a pounding human heart, the hearts of a turtle, a rabbit and a bird, and the passage of blood, a corpuscle at a time, through the microphoto-graphed capillaries of live animals. But as the price of admission, the audience had to face a tasteless jangle of gimmicks: a Superman-like "Hemo" to personify blood, dialect comedy, crude mechanical cartoon analogies of circulatory functions ("groceries...
...five-week-old show, which is carried by 37 NBC stations, is often less notable for the answers it evokes than the questions it asks. A few examples from the McCrarys' interview with Actress Mary Martin: "Do you envy Marilyn Monroe? Do you dream in color? If you had married Winthrop Rockefeller, would you have just loafed? Do you get jealous of your husband's old girls?" Says Tex: "We try to hurt only people who are able to defend themselves...
Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Guest: Julius La Rosa (color...
There is meaning in the most brilliantly realized of Kovarsky's works, a series of seven large (40 in. by 52 in.) canvases depicting the seven-day creation of the world (see color page). Shown last fall at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, the series will be on view for the last time in Manhattan next week at a reception given by Israeli Minister Mordecai Kidron. Then it will be shipped to Israel (where it will be shown later this year in the museums of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa), along with the stacks of canvases Kovarsky has completed...
...dies at last, after guzzling lukewarm champagne from the bottle, but not before he has shown himself tougher even than a U.S. visitor who thoughtfully retired to the more civilized climate of Texas. U.S. readers will appreciate Author Ronan's narrative gusto, his authentic, sometimes stomach-turning local color, and the chance to compare the U.S. and down-under forms of the western. Some differences spring to mind at once: Australian cowboys are called stockmen; they use 21-ft. whips rather than lariats; the noble redman of the plains is an ignoble blackfellow, i.e., aborigine; most important, the police...