Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manager despite his many years at Polaroid. An M.I.T.-trained engineer, he helped Land develop the first instant-picture camera in the 1940s. Lately his main job has been to work out the problems that still bedevil production of the SX-70, Polaroid's revolutionary instant-color camera, and have cut deeply into the company's earnings. Unlike Wyman, McCune is not the sort to chafe at Land's tight grip. He has said in the past that he accepts Land's managerial motto: "You can do anything you want to-as long...
...Gruff Joke. Like many artists of the time, Dove also pursued the idea that colors could have symbolic meanings, that they could "stand for" specific sounds. A testament to Dove's interest in synesthesia was Fog Horns (1929), in which the sound of the signals is symbolized by concentric rings of paint growing in lightening tones of grayed pink from a dark center: the bell mouths of the horns, their peculiar resonance and the color of the fog are fused in one image...
...issues" of American art and Jasper Johns would obsessively return to it. Of course, Portrait of Ralph Dusenberry is not necessarily a better assemblage because it predicts some part of Johns any more than the strong totemic architecture of Dove's last and most expansive color paintings, like That Red One (1944), is necessarily made more relevant because it seems to anticipate Robert Motherwell. Although Dove could fall to an almost barbaric level of buckeye clumsiness when off form (as this faithfully assembled show abundantly proves), the best of his work survives not as prediction but as experience...
...violence or harassment to force his victim to pay. The appeals court bought Thompson's argument that the law did not deal only with fear of physical harm, but could be interpreted as covering threatened economic damage as well. Another decision held that merely obtaining money improperly under "color of official right" was enough to establish extortion. With those decisions, the standard defense that the questionable deal had been a friendly, voluntary arrangement all but vanished...
...number of blacks in the Harvey plant from two to more than 50 among its 400 regular employees. Now, because of the cutbacks, all but the original two black workers have been let go. Watkins and his friends contended that earlier discrimination against blacks meant that an ostensibly color-blind seniority rule was, in fact, a continuing color bar. Despite precedent to the contrary, a federal district court agreed. It ordered a remedy that would have the effect of moving junior blacks ahead of many senior whites. The company and the union objected, and last week the argument moved...