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...once again. Thus for the well-to-do, basic black is a means of ostentatious discretion. On the other hand, the angry black of the new wave--dark glasses, sour black T shirts and scruffy black jeans--is more the anarchist's traditional black. It is neo-beatnik, the color correlate of the adolescent angst satirized by Chekhov. Why do you always wear black? Masha's suitor asks her in the opening scene of The Seagull. "I am in mourning for my life," the girl declares...
...several black lines does not necessarily add up to a great darkening. Besides, Braun calculators are terrific looking; black dinner jackets are preferable to sky blue dinner jackets; better a posturing young poet, surely, than a buttondown teenage arbitrager in chinos. But why all black and why now? The color is gunpowder and midnight; the message is menace and highly private pleasure. --By Kurt Andersen
Judging from the merchandise available in Chongqing's department stores and the thousands of bazaars and shops, city residents have become avid consumers. Color televisions are on sale for $680, along with locally manufactured refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, even keyboard organs. With prosperity has come more time for leisure. In one factory auditorium, an eight-piece orchestra plays nightly, and couples tentatively attempt fox-trots, rumbas, two-steps, even the twist. Says one disbelieving onlooker: "You could not imagine such a thing as this only a couple of years ago. These people were in cell meetings." --By Spencer Davidson...
...casualty insurer has now decided to adopt a new name. A contest is being held among the firm's 980 employees to suggest the best alternative. The winner will be given $5,000. AID executives have not decided how to modify the firm's logo. Says Evans: "The color might stay the same. The shape might stay the same. It's just that awful word...
...woman waving from a small platform as the World Series Special pulled into Hermann, Mo. She was the only absolute partisan spotted in a week. Across the state, everyone decked out in red or blue appeared to have either a touch or at least a tolerance of the other color. More than gracious, St. Louis was as fretful as Kansas City for the well-being of Third Baseman George Brett when, near the finish of the fifth game, he went sliding after a foul ball, skidded into his dugout and onto the spacious cushion of Coach Lee May. With...