Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story "Hypertension: Conquering the Quiet Killer." Three other TIME staffers and contributors last week received Page One awards from the Newspaper Guild of New York. They are: Associate Editor Burton Pines, for a report on the growing conflict between rich and poor nations; Photographer Dirck Halstead, for his color treatment of new international beauties; and Photographer Ken Regan, for his color photos of Boxer Chuck Wepner. The Newspaper Guild of New York also presented TIME itself with an award for the outstanding quality of its Indochina reporting last year...
Shaw is the name that dominates the movie business of Southeast Asia. Shaw Brothers' films, produced at Shaw's Movietown, shot in Shawscope color and shown in 143 Shaw-owned theaters, attract 250,000 people a day from Hong Kong to Jakarta, plus thousands more in Chinatowns around the world. Shaw Brothers grind out 40 titles a year (newest crop: Black Magic, Killer Clans, Five Shaolin Masters)−a sort of column A, column B menu of Oriental weepers with suicidal beauties, or Eastern Westerns featuring Kung Fu Mandarins...
...returned excited by Cezanne, the Fauvists and everything modern. During the three-year absence from his adopted country, he wrote later, "steel and electricity had created a new world. A new drama had surged from the unmerciful violation of darkness at night, by the violent blaze of electricity, highly colored lights." Stella was describing America in 1912, and he translated one of his impressions into a bright, swirling canvas that he called Battle of Lights, Coney Island (see color pages...
...Limousine Commission, and drew up a 160-page study on taxis and their ideal specifications. He then persuaded five manufacturers to submit fresh designs based on the study. This week, Ambasz's dream, "The Taxi Project: Realistic Solutions for Today," went on display at the museum (see color). The five sturdy prototypes...
Seven days later the story was Page One again. In prose evocative of earlier eras, Times Science Writer John Noble Wilford declared: "The search for the Loch Ness Monster has begun." Already 8,000 color photographs had been taken in the "murky waters," an "allnight vigil" had been mounted, and Expedition Leader Robert H. Rines had announced, "We have maximized our chances for success...