Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throw off your chains. This weekend at the Science Center the University Film Study Center is projecting fifteen of the world's finest short animated films, selected in part from winners of international festivals. The styles range from New Yorker-cartoon-like line drawings to color swirls and slashes reminiscent of Kandinsky, from sequenced photographs of porcelain dolls to images like amoebas in a microscopic slide. Mostly, though, they transmit undiluted visual delight...
...fields of color in Still's paintings do not directly represent the spaces of the Midwest, any more than the jagged profiles and vertiginous falls and splits of color represent the Rockies. Yet the fundamental American sense of landscape-vast space conferring freedom-is unmistakably there. Cataracts of ultramarine blue, gorges of orange and cadmium yellow, a patch of blue appearing like the blind eye of a lake: color becomes iconography...
...From the moment it was marketed nationally in 1973, sales were respectable for so high-priced a camera (then $180 before discounting) but below expectations. Users complained of dead batteries in fresh film packs and bad pictures-"washouts" from manual flash picture adjustments that were too complicated, poor color reproduction, even loss of such details as eyebrows that failed to appear in fully developed photos. Polaroid's earnings plunged from $66 million in 1970 to $28 million in 1974, and that year the company's lagging fortunes forced it to lay off 1,000 workers...
...play. His screen career began in 1933 and included success in Sanders of the River, Jericho and King Solomon's Mines. But always he felt hemmed in by the constraints upon blacks, and he took to touring and living in England and on the Continent, where, he said, color did not seem to matter. In the mid-1940s and 1950s he was an outspoken champion of civil rights; he moved for a time to the Soviet Union, where he thought blacks had more freedom and where he sent his only son to school. Condemned at home in the McCarthy...
...Vivant Denon, an artist and writer whose illustrated La Description de L'Egypte excited Europe's curiosity about the pharaohs' treasure. Unfortunately, though The Rape of the Nile reproduces dozens of Denon's paintings-and hundreds of other illustrations-only the dust jacket is in color...