Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raytheon dried shrimp is no shriveled, leathery remnant. It is nearly as big as a fresh peeled shrimp and made of a strange, brittle material with the consistency of popcorn or puffed cereal. Taken out of an airtight plastic envelope, it smells like raw shrimp, and its color is about the same. When one of these brittle ghosts is dropped into tepid water, it softens quickly and swells a little. After half an hour of soaking and two minutes in boiling water, the shrimp is firm, sweet and tastes like a shrimp that has been carefully preserved by freezing...
...Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse now stands CBS's Television City, so vast a factory for live TV production that the director of the Red Skelton Show shuttles between his set and the control room by bicycle. NBC's sprawling new $13 million color studios in Burbank, hard by the Warner lot, are even bigger...
...grow into important businesses, but the Cash research men have long since taken off into wilder blue yonders of capsule science. Most interesting capsules produced so far are filled with a liquid photochromic dye that turns blue when exposed to light of a certain wave length and loses its color when light of another wave length hits it. The Cash men are hard at work building these talented capsules into a "chemical memory" for computing machines. A transparent film impregnated with photochromic capsules can be written upon in coded dots of color by a hair-thin beam of light...
...Richmond this week the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will hang two new acquisitions (see color page) that not only rank high as art but also provide a study in similarity and contrast. Both tell stories, both deal with famed warriors; and yet in treatment and technique they stand as far apart as cool, clear crystal from the warmth of flamboyant stained glass...
...less technically adequate paintings, I like Jonathan Beecher's Slug Two. It is an imaginative tour de force, creating a colorful world of humorous spooks and goblins. A very different key is struck by William Reed in a cool mountain landscape that shows a sensitive handling of color and light...