Word: colorfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Color & the Camera...
...Your article "Black & White Dating" [July 19] really made me angry. Most young people, and even some older ones, date because they like each other. They see only human beings to date, to love, to work with. Then comes a desperate reporter with his "color" camera, and the myth of race gets another two-page spread. Get off our backs and let us live as human beings. To hell with race...
...like a good suit, is made of fine materials well cut and well joined. The result must cost no more than the client agreed to pay. It must fit his requirements?and at its best, the requirements of the neighborhood, the city, the culture. The buildings on the accompanying color pages point up the qualities that good building must possess...
...scene is a seaside village on a remote stretch of Canada's Gaspé Peninsula. Almond uses his color camera as a landscape painter might, pausing now to frame a snow-banked brook and barnyard, now a pile of upturned boat hulls rotting in the winter sun. The country store, the local garage with the inevitable Coca-Cola sign and the railroad tracks piercing through the barren hills like a steel spine flash by in a blur of fast cuts. And always there is the distant, forlorn sound of cowbell and gull cry, wind and heaving...
...final breakdown of the worlds comes in a violently sensual display of color. Audran, coming out into the open, crosses the barriers Chris has established between his lives, destroying forever his success as a hidden prime mover. The lush blues we identify with Christine and, we realize in retrospect, with the dead Paola, are disrupted by Audran's red dress, then by the blackness of the stocking with which Christine and the other girls are strangled. The violence of the deed is muted by the awesome lushness of the images, textures of decor which make murder a forbidden ritual...