Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This V-12 business had made a difference right there, he noted as he reached the House. The fellows standing around the janitor's office had no stripes on theirs--just plain black neckerchiefs. The only variations in the blue and black color scheme were on the sleeve or in the splash of color above the breast pocket...
...less pinching was his free-lance career for picture magazines, chiefly LIFE. Gaudiest assignment: color portraits of Hollywood stars. Preferred work: graphic reports in black & white on social subjects such as Pennsylvania miners. He is so photogenic himself that Ginger Rogers once suggested that he be screen-tested...
...that if an animal's optic stalk (connecting the eye and the brain) is cut, the animal will change its breeding season. He also found that the intensity of light seems to make little difference; what counts is its duration. The pituitary gland apparently is also stimulated by color: red light, for example, moves starlings to mate more than any other...
...grave as a drill in a cavity. The others were pleased. Mr. Rockwell himself, quite untroubled, told questioners that the modeling was of course deliberate, that he thought it would be "fun." He added, "At first I was going to make it entirely like Michelangelo, but his color was not good for a magazine...
...recreation of vintage-1905 sporting life with a noisy host of roisterers, pitchmen, barflies, and by-no-means-innocent bystanders. Miss Grable's tunes, dances, and virtually unprintable person will take full care of the general public. Film epicures will also be ravished by unoriginal but wonderful color-camera work on the gaudy, splendidly researched subject of oldtime Coney-Island...