Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...damage is incalculable," said Director Federico Fellini, after learning that color negatives from his current film had disappeared from Technicolor's vaults near Rome. The negatives, from which final prints of the movie had not yet been made, represented Fellini's first three weeks of shooting on Casanova, with Donald Sutherland and Margaret Clementi in leading roles. "There are sets that have been dismantled to make room for other ones, actors who have finished their work and left for heaven knows where," lamented the director. While police began an investigation, Italian reporters tried to estimate the size...
Tiomkin, 76, is perhaps the best-known practitioner of an exacting, lucrative profession: writing music for movies and television. There are no rules for capturing a visual image, an emotion or a color in sound. "I once taught a U.C.L.A. course on composing for TV," remembers Lalo Schifrin, 40, composer of the Mission: Impossible theme. "I asked my students to write the sound of the color orange. Every response was different, and each was equally correct...
Though strategically effective, the analogy with blacks surely begs the question of whether homosexuality is as irrelevant and accidental as skin color. The belief that some homosexuality, at least, comes from emotional disturbance has been shaken in recent years, but not laid to rest...
...Innovators have loaded the game with enough gimrnicks to make it sometimes unrecognizable. The championship series in World Team Tennis, won last week by the Pittsburgh Triangles, was played on a court without white lines. Each section was a different color-from brown to blue. Scorekeeping can be perplexing, particularly when it comes to tie breakers. This year Forest Hills has dropped the sudden-death tie breaker, but the replacement, a twelve-point tie breaker in which the winner must beat his opponent by two points, could go on even longer than the set it is supposed to shorten...
Ashland Oil Inc. Chairman Orin E. Atkins recently hung on his office wall a color portrait of Cartoonist Al Capp's renowned detective, Fearless Fosdick, Swiss-cheesed by bullet holes. Says Fosdick: "Fortunately, these are merely flesh wounds...