Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these changes? There were several reasons, but perhaps most important was our increasing use of fast-breaking color photographs. These, we thought, required a simpler, cleaner-looking environment. Managing Editor Henry Grunwald finds the new design "neat and orderly. It should encourage discipline and emphasize organization, which is at the heart of the newsmagazine principle. But this sense of order will not inhibit us. Quite the contrary, it will make the occasional splash, the bold visual gesture easier...
...Park. A grateful coalition leader, the Rev. A.I. Dunlap, said he would consider parading on a weekday, in order to reduce the potential for violent counterdemonstrations. Sounding very like his predecessor, Richard Daley, Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic says "I don't think it has anything to do with color," and adds "marching has turned out to be a regressive type of thing...
What a difference color can make. In this lush, slightly feverish Italian drama, the color photography is not merely the medium, it is a potent metaphor. In scene after scene, Cinematographer Ennio Guarnier frames the setting-turn-of-the-century Bologna and Venice-in rich, painterly soft focus, but his colors are so intense that they almost seem to burn the film. Similarly, the leading characters-an eminent if controversial scientist and socialist, his beautiful daughter who is suffocating in a bourgeois marriage, his erratic lawyer-son who is so devoted to his trapped sister that he would kill...
Greased Lightning purports to be the biography of Wendell Scott, who may be described loosely as the Jackie Robinson of auto racing-the first black man to cross the color line in his sport. One says "purports" because it is almost impossible to believe that any real life could so unerringly follow the classic lines of so many biopix past. The cheerfully determined young man struggling to support his family while trying to fulfill his ambitions, the opposition from the Establishment in his field, the early heartbreaks, the ultimate triumph-all this is the familiar stuff of a hundred celluloid...
...failed, all due to the intransigence of Smith. Up to about a year ago, we thought there was a possibility of change. Then we realized that this man was just playing with words. So we have taken up arms to fight for freedom and justice for all, regardless of color...