Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation in Namibia. Take the situation in Zimbabwe. As far as the West is concerned, after Angola, the Russians and the Cubans can't go into Zimbabwe and other countries. But Africans would applaud them if they walked in tomorrow. It doesn't matter what the color of their skin is. We were pleasantly surprised to see [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger in his Lusaka speech taking a position for the liberation of southern Africa. In that area there has never been a position stated by the Americans...
...immediately; Carter Brandon and Ross Miller's sculpture, dripping wine, arrests the eye, ear, nose. One of three beautifully engineered sculptures, the work balances stretched steel cable, rods, and shimmering planes. Wine slides and spatters down its contours. Further on, Anne Taintor's silkscreen parrot quilt hangs in downy color, a softer statement; to the right large line drawings assert strength and sensuality...
...House Gallery. It consists of 43 elaborate Edo-period kimono, chosen from 11,000 examples from Japan's foremost private collection. Almost all the techniques of kimono making - especially the two major ones, tie-dyeing and resist-dyeing - are on view in examples of the highest quality (see color...
...Bounty, for example. At the very least, there was always an unforgettable moment or two, like the garden scene in The Godfather in which he mugs for his grandchild. Brando loves to mug in real life too, as the pictures taken on The Missouri Breaks set show (see color page...
...returned from the bird sanctuary with the last rays of sunlight. The lagoon was a gentle green color set against the dramatic black silhouette of Tetiaroa. Brando pointed up to the first evening star visible in the dimming sky. A strange, almost mystical feeling pervaded, as if one could slip overboard and sink beneath the soft sea to become part of all that beauty. "Don't worry, you'd swim," Marlon laughed when I told him later about my strange impulse. "But I know exactly what you mean. It's happened to me many times...