Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other retail outlets. The decision not to promote mail subscriptions was largely prompted by the increases in second-class postage now being imposed by the U.S. Postal Service. The first issue carries 20 pages of advertising; page rates are $4,550 for black and white, $5,800 for color...
...vocal writing actually suits Sills' light voice better than Donizetti's heavyweight scores. This is music to float jewels on. Sills' succession of bravura displays in the mad scene ("Qui la voce sua soave ") is like a string of emeralds, each deeper and more lustrous in color. She enters from a high rear balcony, floats dreamily down a long ramp, chats nuttily with her father ("Who are you?"), begs for her lover's return, then collapses in a twirl of deranged rapture...
Hello, Dolly! (1969). Barbra Streisand sang and danced her heart out, but the film's four Oscars went for art and set decoration, musical scoring, and sound. Ch. 7,8 p.m. Color, 3 hours...
...rising (or setting?) sun shape, the cart-wheel, the star pattern, the pagoda like shapes or one we just called the Spruce St. Variety. There's probably a folk-art monograph and foundation grant in it: "Varieties of the Eave Ornament in the Southeastern U.S. 1880-1920." With color pictures. Out of boredom we began classifying types and snapping a few pictures--to the disbelief and irritation of women on porches who thought we were photographing something going on behind upper story windows...
...inhabitants, was dwarfed by the huge cliffs that vaulted high into the sky above it. The cluster of tin- and thatch-roofed adobe houses looked fragile at the foot of that implacable slab of rock, whose only distinction from the surrounding stark Andes was its lurid clay-red color, which seemed to brood over some dark mysterious secret life in the village below...