Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Showing off their high-powered, color and graphics masterpiece, the Amiga, Commodore is hoping to gain a major piece of the personal computer market. No matter how good the machine is, the Happy Hacker advises people to stay with the accepted standards. Besides, unless you want fancy video games, the IBM or Macintosh is sure to serve most normal purposes...
DESCRIPTION: Color chart showing the Brazilian losses for five American banks...
...love with themselves. Most productions of Coward tend to be as glittery and brittle as spun glass. Murray brings the proceedings down to earth: these are not natural aristocrats but peasants with money and a veneer of polish, and when they mockingly meddle in the supernatural to gather color for one of Charles' books, they bring chaos crashing down upon themselves...
Food has its operatic side in China, and anyone who savors local color will be repeatedly drawn to the street food markets, like Canton's Qingping, an enormous, dazzling maze where private enterprise is allowed to thrive. Here, more than in the sparsely stocked indoor government markets, are stacks of jade green cabbages, gigantic leeks, silvery winter melons, woodsy mushrooms, mounds of gnarled ginger roots, pomegranates and persimmons, displayed alongside skeins of noodles, fish swimming in vats of running water, and live geese and ducks, sitting sleepily in place with their feet tied together. Also live in crates...
...look upon Nature, while I live in a steel city," exclaimed David Bomberg in 1914, and the terse machine-like signs he found for briskly moving figures in The Mud Bath, his early masterpiece of 1912-13, have a tonic decisiveness that is only magnified by the simple color scheme of red, white and blue...