Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recognizes that Western European designers are the very best practitioners of the art. Today's tableware from Scandinavia, watches from Switzerland, furniture and automobiles from Italy and clothing from France are, in the opinion of many authorities, the pre-eminent and handsomest products in their fields (see color pages...
...worn with jackets that skim the body closely. Jersey, flannel and gabardine are daytime favorites, with the emphasis on navy, white and variations on tones of beige; and the dressier clothes lean to muslins, chiffons and thin crepes in soft prints, like Dior's pointillist patterns, blurring from color to color to color...
...Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner helped to introduce sensationalism, jingoism and human interest into newspaper reporting. But in recent years the once garish Examiner, fading visibly, has resembled nothing so much as a hazy fog rolling in from the Pacific-with the news reporting turning blurred, local color getting soupy and editorials going bland...
...which Rubens gave a new stature: landscape and still life. His idea of a battle piece was a knot of turbulent figures and horses, locked together into one impacted mass by an undulating, centripetal rush of line, as in the magnificent Battle of Constantine and Licinius(1622) (see color...
...match the average annual 3.8% increase in new-car sales that it posted over the past decade. Says Chrysler's Lynn Townsend: "I think to some extent we will see a shrinking of desire for some of the things we always wanted-those two cars per family, two color-television sets and lots of other things. We certainly as a people cannot continue piling luxury upon luxury. There...