Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From the New York Press Photographers Association, two awards to Eddie Adams for pictures in TIME: first prize in the portrait and personality category (for Alone, a picture of George Wallace at the 1972 Democratic Convention), and first prize in color news photography (Viet...
...Byzantine Museum, the impressive 21-ft.-long wall painting portrays a detailed, DeMille-like epic of invasion and bloodshed. Spyridon Marinatos, the chief excavator and director of Greece's department of antiquities, compares it to the Iliad. "Homer is poetry in words," he says. "This is poetry in color...
...point a camera," Elisofon once said, "at things that I thought needed attention." Quitting a career as a commercial photographer, he covered World War II for LIFE in Africa as well as in the Arctic, Europe and the Pacific. A camera artist who had a unique mastery of color, Elisofon had a particular passion for the Dark Continent and its artifacts, which he lovingly recorded in his 1958 book The Sculpture of Africa...
Flaubert's first sight of Egypt, as he wrote his mother, came "through, or rather in, a glowing light that was like melted silver on the sea." For all those months he remained plunged in a world of vivid color impressions: black earth, purple desert, the bleached bird droppings of 4,000 years running down obelisks and colossi, the deliriously blue sky. The official object of their expedition left him quite cold: he uttered a cry of conventional ecstasy at the first sight of the Sphinx and its "terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly...
WEDNESDAY: Shenyang Acrobatic Troupe. Dazzling acrobatic performance by a 40-member troupe from the People's Republic of China, taped in January at the JFK Center for the Performing Arts in D.C. CH.5. 8:30 p.m. Color...