Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apartheid requires rigid classification of races and a host of humiliating laws to back it up. Every South African is registered by race: white, Coloured, Asian or African. Skilled jobs are frequently reserved for whites. Marriage or sexual relations across the color line are illegal, with long jail sentences attached. Africans may only go to special "Bantu" schools, designed to train them as servants in white-owned in dustry; blacks must pay for their education, while whites get it free. "Bantu Education" features classes in housework and 60 children to a classroom...
...giant step in the opposite direction. At an exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts this week, Land will show off one of the world's largest cameras, a room-sized blowup of his old invention that in only a minute can make a full-color, full-sized copy of a masterpiece...
...viscous mixture they call "goo"-onto both sheets simultaneously. After passing between a pair of rollers, the sandwich of photographic papers is raised, by rope and pulley, toward the ceiling. Then the sandwich is lowered to the floor, and the negative is lifted off, revealing the huge full-color print. "It's nothing but a small Polaroid process made larger," says Technician Peter Bass...
...products of Land's new camera will be revealed to the public at a Museum of Fine Arts exhibit entitled "The Martyrdom of St. Paul: A Medieval Tapestry in Sharp Focus." In addition to the actual Martyrdom, the exhibit will include a life-sized, full-color reproduction of the tapestry's reverse side. It will also display ten 51-centimeter by 61-centimeter (20-in. by 24-in.) reproductions and magnifications of selected segments of the tapestry showing such details as the original stitching and repairs that have been made over the years. The museum will soon...
...have complained about having to live out of suitcases, unsure of exactly when they would move on campus, and the irregular shuttle bus service to the main campus has annoyed almost all. But most chose to simply grin and bear it. After all, students on campus were not getting color televisions, air conditioning, and maid service...