Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medieval soldiers. Even the terrible knocking at the gate is not the usual pounding on wood but instead a clanking on metal. This is a cool, gray world. The huge portraits of Duncan and later of Macbeth and his wife, which are dropped down from the grid, are not colored oils; they are stark black-and-white photographs. Touches of color in this production are rare, and thus all the more striking...
...arrhythmia. In the scene where Ross calls attention to the solar eclipse, the circle becomes a view of the period of totality with its brightly flaming corona. When Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes, the circle becomes a blood-red target with a bull's-eye of blue, the color of heavenly innocence...
...college class, he wrote that he was "grateful to Harvard beyond measurement." "Of all the privileges granted to me," he added, "I cared most about teaching, especially on my return from World War II, to find Radcliffe in the front row of Harvard Hall, bringing decor and color, taking notes and outlines from the board, and flattering the professor by close attention...
...temperate Baker drinks only an occasional gin and tonic and tolerates neither profanity nor off-color humor. During the hearings he has dieted off 25 lbs. and now weighs a trim 155. He plays golf and tennis avidly and frequently canoes on the Little Tennessee River or hikes in the nearby hills. His favorite pastime, however, is photography, and both his $150,000 rambling home in tiny Huntsville, Tenn...
...seems strange, in the year after Gund Hall and the Science Center were completed, to hear things like, "The thing that is the greatest concern is that the color of the building material and the texture of the material harmonize with the rest of the Yard," which is what Harold L. Goyette, the director of the Planning Office, says about the new dorm...