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...addition to being radically innovative with subject matter, was also extremely experimental with media, haphazardly using a variety of unstable compounds such as egg whites and cheap Woolworth's paint. For the Harvard murals, Rothko mixed ultramarine, a stable blue pigment, with lithol red, a highly non-colorfast red hue, to yield the then crimson background. The murals' appearance today is the result of fading due to ultraviolet radiation that shone through the bay window of the penthouse. Furthermore, after the installation, the penthouse was turned into a well-frequented University dining facility. So, added to the damaging sunlight...
...science to tell you all men are not created equal. Put a man and a woman in a secluded room and they will soon uncover this fact themselves. The woman cannot grow a testicle, nor the man a bust, nor the African a blonde hair, nor the Caucasian a colorfast suntan. Nor do they need to. As my roommate says, "What counts is not my 140 I.Q., but what I do with...
Steinbeck has tried to feel the Arthurian apestry, not just to look at it from a distance. The Acts tries to re-weave the fabric of this legend in colorfast and pre-shrunk threads of modern idiom. Casting nostalgia aside, one must admit that any tapestry furnishing the room of a modern mind must be able to go in the wash, to be treated as something useable and abusable, not as a museum piece. Steinbeck has come a long way towards making Arthur wash...
...Chicago, the Cubs announcer, Jack Brickhouse, appears in an ad with a star-spangled crone playing Betsy Ross. "I'm keeping busy," says Betsy. "I've got to get ever so many flags over to the American National Bank for their special holiday offer . . . Made of my best colorfast bunting, too." Gas stations pass out antenna flags with each purchase. In Atlanta, the Winn Dixie supermarkets offer flag pins with each $5 purchase?one to a customer. One Detroit department store is pushing a line of red, white and blue plastic dinner plates called Glory. Some concessionaires, such...
Madras will be much more important in men's wear this summer than last. Sports coats ($37.50) have already arrived at Sak's with labels reading: "Not colorfast: guaranteed to blood." Soon walking shorts, ties, shirts, and swim suits will also be available in madras...