Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.A. in diving at the Olympic Games. The President himself sent him on a tour in the Far East. And why? So he would be an example of the absence of racial discrimination in America. And what happened to him when he came back? Because of the color of his skin they wouldn't permit him to buy a little house below Los Angeles. And he wasn't even a Negro...
...Baldwin, with a refined smile, hands the girl some color photographs. They show her family in a country house and a large automobile...
...fairness, though these are good Picassos they are not among the best. Why, is a question not easy to answer. Their color could not be improved. Their handling of shapes is as fine as anyone might hope. In theory everything is au juste. In practice, from afar, the two paintings are exciting and of the highest caliber. Yet, on successive viewings they lose impact where the Cezannes and earlier Picassos get better. The two still-lifes become vulnerable to the charge that they are more decorative than substantial...
...Owner André Emmerich has published A Preface and Four Seasons, which combines the pleasant, anecdotal reveries of Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw with five signed lithographs by fast-rising U.S. Abstractionist-in-Paris John Levee, 35. The text accompanying Levee's Images of European Summer (see color) draws on Shaw's own expatriate ramblings, summons up visions of "the sea calm, the sun hot. Everybody lazy and on holiday." Offshore a party on an aircraft carrier makes "the final perfect touch against the violet horizon." Sales to date: eight (which included a signed gouache...
...version, "and nobody's going to pull me down." Sadly her admirer (John Gavin) slouches away, and Lana goes up and up and up until she finds herself in a penthouse with a famous playwright (Dan O'Herlihy), and all of Manhattan at her feet-in Eastman Color. How happy she seems, but how miserable she really is. "Something,'' the heroine sighs, "is missing." Certainly not one soap-opera cliche is missing...