Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distance is a sky-and-seascape (I could do without the movable ocean-wave cutouts). To the right is a staircase, and situated here and there are a stone lantern, short columns and statuettes. Perhaps suggested by the Christmas-tree tinsel of the Twelfth Night season, the pervading color of all the solid objects and their trimmings is silver. A close inspection, however, reveals a number of human skulls outlined in the surface textures, as though to suggest--quite rightly--that there are sombre or tart undertones in this play, which many people take to be all sweetness and light...
...horizon line drawn clean as a wire, yet with an irrational undular flourish; the absurd and soulful hare, like a creature from a comic strip. Its gaze is fixed on what appears to be a rifle ball, ricocheting in a spiral from the gun of a disembodied hunter. The color, too, is unique - the broad planes of earth and sky like a flag, interspersed by echoing flecks of red, or ange and yellow on the body of the hare, in the spiral and up on the horizon. Only Matisse could use color with the terse ness, the steady decorative assurance...
...seven-day trip to four Arab nations and Israel, the huzzas and hossannas fell like sweet rain. For the President, coming out of the parched Watergate wasteland of Washington, the praise and the cheers of multitudes were welcome indeed, particularly since each stop, each spectacle, was beamed in living color back to the living rooms of the U.S. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler called Nixon's welcome "the greatest in my six years with the President." He meant no irony, but home was never like this, and the President's aides were convinced that the accolades abroad would strengthen...
...LIFE for 35 years and was one of the first trustees of the Museum of African Art. Elisofon's collection of African art comprised more than 600 pieces, including some masterpieces: a delicately incised, ocher-painted Bobo mask from the Upper Volta, with its fantastically ramifying headgear (see color page); the imposing Senufo figure of a hornbill, with its swollen body and spread wings intended both as a carrier of souls and as a fertility symbol; and a magnificent Basonge mask from Zaïre, the face and forehead incised in flowing parallel lines and then covered with white...
...Wall Street's alltime favorite glamour issues, Polaroid Corp. stock has been looking remarkably bedraggled lately. In May 1972 the price hit 149½, as optimism spread about the supersophisticated SX-70 self-developing color camera that Chairman Edwin H. Land had dramatically demonstrated to shareholders a month earlier at the annual meeting. The stock then rode a roller coaster (see chart) as great expectations about the camera alternated with apprehension about sales and technical difficulties. But in the past year or so, the lows have been getting steadily lower. Two weeks ago, negative brokerage-house reports knocked almost...