Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, each of the players would wear an alligator of a different color, but Sullivan's generosity produced a uniform appearance which, appropriately enough, was either a blazing red or a not so blazing red, depending on whether you were an odd or an even...
...Kaplan, well, some things just never change, like the color of his shirt and the watch on his wrist. Why the watch? "So I can see what time it is between the second and third games," he said--at exactly 5:43 p.m.--after a 15-7, 15-4, 15-3 thriller. And why the shirt? Skip it, that...
...Phillips, who wrote the story, reports that almost every January since 1967 she has settled down "in front of the biggest color TV in the neighborhood" to soak up the Super Bowl extravaganza. (She missed seeing only one-but listened to it over the radio in the Tan Son Nhut Air Base cafeteria in South Viet Nam.) Football has been a part of her life since the days when her older brother had dreams of becoming another Johnny Unitas. "He learned to pass with me as the receiver," she remembers with a smile. "I chased badly thrown footballs...
...multitudes ready for the opening kickoff. They include Americans in Europe who jet into Frankfurt to watch the game in German hotels that pirate the American Forces Network's signal. In Korea, 40,000 troops worry less about Panmunjom Truce Session CCCLXXXIII than the 5:30 a.m. live color broadcast of the Super Bowl...
...Keeffe, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Nataliia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay look extraordinary; one's eye goes with relief to Goncharova's crude, provincial but raucously vital cubist portrait of her husband Mikhail Larionov (1913), the face kippered flat and streaked with voracious slashes of color; it luxuriates in the shimmer of rosy light, circle on circle, that fills the surface of Delaunay's masterpiece of 1916, The Flamenco Singer. Moreover, if the exhibition does seem to end on a dying fall, it hardly matters. What counts is that an area of great consequence for art history...