Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novels, this one falls flat in the fast company. James Garner is just not a very credible Marlowe for those who have seen Bogart in "The Big Sleep." For good Marlowe, see Elliott Gould in "The Long Goodbye" at the Harvard Square this week. CH.7. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...Blob. 1958. Steve McQueen. A jellyfish. Quintessential. CH.5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...with a human head and the hub of a decorated worm gear for its belly button, predicts the surreal wooden constructions of H.C. Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with an unprejudiced eye, the snap and sparkle of the piecework Cactus Rose-pattern quilt of 1875 can reduce a lot of modernist abstraction to visual mush...
Meanwhile, the repopulated canal zone cities are expected to take on their old color and bustle. Osman plans to make Port Said a free trading zone attractive to manufacturers from all over the world. Located on the Mediterranean at the mouth of the canal, Port Said offers a good climate and cheap labor (skilled factory workers make $6 a day). The government would allow raw materials to enter the zone and finished products to leave it with virtually no taxation. To the south, along the canal on Lake Timsah, Osman has dreams of building a $125 million tourist resort...
...drizzle, we are already captured by the sudden fracturing of the reflected image. In their cozy country house in England, John and Laura Baxter are working quietly when John suddenly breaks a piece of glass, cuts himself. Blood creeps like some blotted gargoyle over the face of a color slide--it shows the interior of a Venetian church he is restoring. Outside, their little girl has just drowned, and her red slicker is floating on the water. Already we are drawn into this world, sympathizing with the wounds it suffers, informed about it as suddenly and unexpectedly as the edge...