Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album Mwandishi (Swahili for composer), Hancock made his first extensive use of electronic sounds with such instruments or devices as electric bass, electric piano, echoplex and phase shifter. Head Hunters finds him, in addition, employing the Arp Soloist synthesizer (for melody) and the Arp Odyssey synthesizer (melody and color). As if to justify his expenditures, Hancock says: "There is only so much you do with a keyboard...
...open fully, minimizing the risk of side swipes. Polyurethane bumpers are designed to absorb the shock of a 10-m.p.h. collision, double the legal minimum, by receding into the body. The Bricklin's body is made of a corrosion-proof, vacuum-formed acrylic that is impregnated with color (Safety Red, Safety Green, etc.) rather than painted. Bricklin will put the new car, which is being made in Saint John, N.B., on sale in the Northeastern U.S. next month. He expects to make 1,000 cars a month initially, 100,000 a year eventually. But it remains for the consumer...
...figure out Nixon, one facade seems only to hide another. Not only journalists but many Republican politicians are put off by a quality that comes across variously as insincerity, awkwardness, lack of genuine warmth. It would be disingenuous to argue that a certain visceral dislike did not color the professional attitudes of many newsmen. Seymour Hersh is more vehement (and perhaps more candid) than most: "I can't stand him. I hate Nixon. I don't like any man who doesn't pay his taxes and who blames associates for everything...
...when Miró produced his ravishing color-field paintings of the 1960s, like Blue II, the space was not neutral: it was the sky, swelling with blue, a historical and literary blue that has woven through modern French culture ever since Stephane Mallarme's paean to I'azur. "In my pictures there are tiny forms in vast empty spaces. Empty space, empty horizons, empty plains, everything that is stripped has always impressed...
...String? It started out on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro (see color pages opposite). Brazil's puritanical military regime had prosecuted a girl from Ipanema who went topless, and then permanently prohibited mammary nudity. Undaunted, the girls of Rio invented the String-known in Brazil as the Tonga-which is derived from an ancient Indian loincloth and consists of two minuscule triangles of cloth joined by a cord over either hip. The Tanga is a huge hit with Rio girl watchers because it bares a large part of the derriere-Brazilian males tend to be nádega...