Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY: CBS Reports. "The Corporation" examines the role of the basic unit of the American economy, particularly its role in shaping attitudes and mores. CH. 7. 10 p.m. Color...
...with aerial footage of the ravages of strip-mining and the barren lives of the miners who make our warm homes warm. "West Virginia--Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Coal" is a savage indictment of the companies that own and run the mountain state. CH. 5. 9 p.m. Color...
THERE WERE striking contrasts apparent in last Friday night's three concertos at Kirkland House--contrasts in tone, color, ensemble, period, and most obviously in performance style. Gerry Moshell led a diverse program of Bach, de Falla, and Tchaikovsky. As a conductor, he has proved again that one need not be limited to a specialty to produce creditable performances. He was aided in varying degrees by the soloists...
Raffael had long painted isolated images based on photos clipped from magazines. Blown up to large scale, the objects were rich in color and thinly painted, "realistic" and yet imbued with a mescaline intensity. He found that California did not so much alter his style as allow him to work less self-consciously within it. For Water Paintings, begun in 1972, he used photos of trout, river surfaces and rapids in northern California snapped by Allan, an enthusiastic fly fisherman...
...interior of an oyster or the pock-marked ivory of a hornbill's beak. Raffael undertook an inspection of their varied skins on the level, if not of the cell, at least on that of the pore. Each point where light hit the tiniest break of texture or color was set down in a curious, tightly circling calligraphy that resembled beads, or agglomerations of frog spawn. Despite their iconic serenity when seen from a distance, Raffael's paintings disclose a bejeweled profusion of incident close up. "There's just no end to reality," says Raffael...