Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high, aluminum, gold-anodized building based on the original design by Architect R. Buckminster Fuller, which resembles a giant, gilded armadillo shell and houses a kaleidoscope of scientific and technical exhibits. Across seven screens -which take up one-third of the interior wall space-flash keyed sets of color pictures of U.S. life (e.g., seven cities, seven college campuses, etc., accompanied by Russian commentary and musical score). This unique process was invented by Designer Charles Eames. Watching the thousands of colorful glimpses of the U.S. and its people, the Russians were entranced, and the slides are the smash...
...leftover from the Brussels World Fair, which has been updated by Walt Disney and fitted out with a Russian sound track. On opening day, uniformed girls handed out free Pepsi-Colas from gaily painted kiosks. More than 60,000 red begonia, white chrysanthemum and blue ageratum plants splashed color through the exhibits-not out of any special patriotic fervor, but because they are the most abundant flowers in Moscow at this season...
...record buyers is becoming increasingly difficult, and one approach is the dazzling package. Example: RCA Victor is releasing good versions of such standard items as The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Force of Destiny (monaural and stereophonic) in impressive boxes with brass fittings and color-dripping illustrations. Another and more daring approach is to look for obscure, rarely or never-recorded works. Part of the recent growth of operatic exotica is London's Giuditta (three mono and stereo), the principal serious effort of Vienna's operetta master, Franz Lehar, who had lifelong pretensions...
...Japan today, there are exactly six color TV receivers in the hands of private owners. But at 60 railroad stations and other public places within transmitting distance of Tokyo last week, hundreds of thousands of Japanese enthusiastically gathered before sets supplied by the Nippon Television Network and watched two hours of daily color programs...
...color project, Shoriki has lined up a regular schedule of baseball games and judo, has signed the taped Perry Como show for a year. With such attractions, he figures that demand will soon drive the price of color receivers down far enough to fit the budget of the average televiewer, is planning to set up color studios all over Southeast Asia. Says Shoriki : "I want Japan to be the first country in the world to have full-scale color TV in operation. I want Japan to beat...