Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Visitors to the Superdome seem to be suitably impressed by it all; they sit reverently in their color-coded grandstand seats, gazing out into the cavern. The size of the place and its frightening newness and emptiness and the reverent tones of the voice on the tape have lulled newcomers into a punchy stupor, and they wander around obediently. People who work at the Superdome are more jaded, and the tour guides tell each other jokes and surreptitiously play the radio. Dazed-looking construction workers and officious security guards wander through the press box and box seats and field...
...court; elaborate dishes and bowls; and several examples of that ethereal and, for some reason, uncopiable turquoise-glazed black-figure ware which was produced in Syria around the 12th century. One plate (see cut) bears the design of a heron, stalking with incomparable grace through this background color as if through azure water. The body of a vase is adorned with leaf-shaped flecks of black, each done with one movement of the brush, but the design−in all its swift irregularity−is full of vitality. The Arabic mastery of pattern was absolute...
...decorative pattern breaks up the surface. It volatilizes what once was solid, rendering substance−bronze, stucco, tile or parchment−almost immaterial. This was no less true of relatively small objects like a 13th century Syrian canteen in silver inlaid brass (see color page), with its elaborate conflation of Islamic and Christian imagery arranged in dense concentric bands, than of vast architectural projects like the tile-work of the Alhambra in Granada. It is hard−perhaps impossible−to hold the entire pattern in one's mind, even when looking...
Abortive Attempt. The film is a blend of animation and live action. Like Director Bakshi's previous inexplicable successes, Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic, the movie labors under the delusion that outrageousness is a synonym for wit, ugliness of line and color a form of style, crudeness a necessary ingredient of vitality...
...this book does contain answers, they are in its spectacular array of photos. There must be 200 of these, mostly in color and mostly by Neil Leifer of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. They cover Ali from his middle teens to the present. They show him fighting, foaming, capering, preaching, blowing his mind at the press like a child blowing dandelion seeds. The pictures, at least, are a coherent record of an incoherent character, who has managed, for the moment, to scramble one of the country's most literate and sensible minds...