Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOUISE SEEKS escape from the vacuousness of her own life--she feels sometimes "as if she alone were standing there, caught in a black-and-white frame while everyone else was moving around in color." To Miriam, the protagonist of "Sour or Suntanned. It Makes No Difference," the main problem, on the other hand, is how to avoid being contaminated by the grayness of other peoples' lives. To this unhappily observant child, the world is composed of an admixture of liars and fool, typified by an aunt "who spent her life thinking there was not much children could understand...
...whizzing bullets, may be verbal in the modern era, and the scores of orphans and widows may be only the one-night creations of color TV sets and Curt Gowdy, but the internecine struggle in the hollows and west into the flatlands will nonetheless maintain its fiery pitch...
...orchestration, on the other hand, was all his own. Not content with the modest range of tone color afforded by conventional instruments, P.D.Q. experimented widely with unusual sound. Few of his innovations made it into the mainstream of Western music, and few who heard the Serenoodle last weekend--with members of the Band's expanded percussion section playing police whistle, duck call popgun cowbell and highly anachronistic electric car horn--will wonder...
...awards-first prize for Best Magazine Use of Pictures. The competition, jointly sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the National Press Photographers' Association assessed three issues of TIME published last year: our Man of the Year issue on King Faisal, with ten pages of color from the Middle East; "Inside the Brain" (Jan. 14, 1974), which included a color X-ray scan of a tumored brain; and the Aug. 19 issue, which photographically chronicled Gerald Ford's succession to the presidency. Judgments were based on layout and editing as well as quality of photography...
...focuses unexpectedly on these everyday objects and conversations as they gradually take on a bizarre importance: the plot hardly adds to the intrigue. Certain words and objects make the play, the way a one-dimensional black line lends form to Picasso's etchings, without the help of shadow or color...