Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this." The other important task of the time is to change the old, pointless images which hamper expectations and hopes. When we remove the stigmas which bar the realization of dreams, then the inner soul will flourish in a body of meaningful literature, regardless of sex, color, or creed...
...wonderful, old feeling and talks about it with the same earnest enthusiasm he would invoke after a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth of a meaningless August game with the Phillies. Nelson made his love for the Mets as distinct as the not-found-in-nature color of one of his unlimited collection of hideous sport jackets...
...little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...
Unlike the heavy, metal-edged varieties used by downhill aficionados, touring skis are narrow and graceful. The waxable kind that require specially color-coded waxes for different temperatures give optimum performance. But the skier must become something of an expert on snow and weather conditions and take the time to continually change waxes: a day's outing could necessitate the use of green for subzero temperatures, blue for slightly warmer air and red for melting snow. The more casual cross-country skier usually chooses a waxless ski that comes grooved with fish-scale, diamond or chevron patterns to provide...
...seen ten movies in 1978. Terry Malick's Days of Heaven was wonderful. There's Dolby for you. And camerawork--Zsigmond again in places, and Haskell Wexler. Believe it or not, that movie taught me a lot about cinema...about compositions, how to use a moving camera, color...That's the best movie of the year, better than Malick's Badlands, too. His best. I loved Brooke Adams. Real odd, distinctive beauty. And intelligence...