Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film. But the director of Alien knows about hostile environments; the director of Blade Runner knows how to mix sleaze and sleek; the director of Legend knows about the perils of passion. Scott is also an ace stylist, and set loose in New York City he creates a Deluxe color version of an Old Hollywood vision: Manhattan in the '40s, with its twin thrills of grandeur and menace. The sidewalks gleam like a Bakelite floor. A hired gun jogs into a Fifth Avenue foyer...
...Sprightly graphics and color weather maps...
...anyone with a radio has already heard Bruce Springsteen telling what it is about. The first single from the album, Brilliant Disguise, floats easily in the air to a snapback, mid-tempo rhythm. It is like a silk scarf shading a lamp: the song throws off odd refractions of color and veils a 100-watt glow. The melody is sinuous, but the lyrics say something scary just at the end: "God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he's sure of." That is Tunnel of Love in two deft lines, an album about love that is not about...
...announcement. Schroeder gave a number of reasons for staying out, among them that she could not maintain personal contact with voters. Said she: "I could not bear to turn every human contact into a photo opportunity." Schroeder would have been a long shot, but she could have added color and flair to a bland field...
DESCRIPTION: Annual circulation of USA Today, 1983-1986. Color illustration of newspaper boy throwing newspaper toward front porch...