Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impossible to imitate." Occasionally, she has quoted jingles in her essays that lend themselves to a certain style, like "Nothing black but a Cadillac," after which she added politely, "Niggers ought to be buried in Cadillacs because that's what's killing us." Gentility. GM, Lord & Taylor, Philco "new color" TV...but isn't that what she meant when she admonished you for worshipping weakness? Maybe these days she really is aiming for a genteel brand of obscenity. It's hard to guess why she should. Apparently her flock wants it that way. Better leave the cussing out altogether--tacit...
...BANANANOFF BUNCH is a sanitized version of the Wild Stunt Show played on weekend afternoons for children. The body and set-up of the dirty jokes are still there--the banana and weiner routines for example--but robbed of their off-color punchlines, they hang tantalizingly like dangling participles...
...that crowd, he relied a great deal on the use of line in his works. Some of his early portraits fall into a category somewhere between drawings and paintings, and it was by producing a series of monotypes that he finally resolved the conflict between lines and areas of color in his work. Monotypes are made somewhat like lithographs, but only one image is produced, and, in Degas's work, it was then colored in with pastels. Lenore Hill has made studies of Degas's use of color in his monotypes, and is exhibiting them in Boylston Hall's Tichnor...
...earliest comic-book panels from 1963, which first won him his notoriety. Lichtenstein went off on an entirely different tangent in his attempts to convey the wavy fluidity, "the absolute indeterminate essence" of the sun, sky and ocean. He uses a combination of schematic and symbolic lines, actual color photographs, and a shimmering plastic called Rowlux, that in any other context--the plastic body of a comb or a brush, a drug-store display, a hair-salon wall--would be called vulgar. But here it is uncanny in its hypnotic approximation of nature...
Such setbacks help to make North Sea's economic climate as treacherous as its meteorology. Development costs, paced by outlays for labor and expensive equipment (see color), have in many cases doubled, or even tripled, in the past two years. Through 1980, costs could reach $35 billion for Britain and Norway alone, or $11 billion more than the U.S. spent to land a man on the moon. Major U.S. oil companies, including Chevron, Amoco, Exxon, Texaco and others are drilling in the North Sea. But rigs are now in surplus, and the pace of exploration is expected to slow...