Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVEN MET HAPPY GYPSIES. In all of this violent and tragic Yugoslav film, there is not a single happy gypsy, but despite many flaws and inconsistencies of style, it depicts in muted, melancholic color the odd, anachronistic ways of an all-but-forgotten people...
...assigned to special areas of the magazine. The girls take part in story-planning conferences, gauging pictorial possibilities in meetings with the editors and writers, then call, cable, assign or personally go after the photos from which the editors make final selection. The procedure we use for getting color pictures is somewhat different but no less intense. While some black and white pictures come from TIME'S own files, or those of sister publications, most are gathered specifically for the stories with which they appear. The researchers must know the best source for an existing picture...
...North Vietnamese for the decreased bombing of the North. The siege was lifted because 6,000 outnumbered Marines, who were never doubtful of the outcome of the impending attack, made a stand. They fought, slept and died in the muddy trenches they called home, while Americans sitting before their color television sets called Khe Sanh a mistake...
...provisioned Harlem "liberator" was asked why he was stealing, he cried: "It's because they killed what's-his-name!" "You know why people loot?" explained one young rioter. "Because they ain't never, so long as they live, gonna have enough money to buy a color-television set. Man, I got big ambitions but not much will power...
...different tack, Herba's I'm A Stranger Here Myself describes a boy's unmotivated need for an unspecified amount of money, and more properly investigates the relationship between actors, film, color, and light. Constantly in motion from interiors to exteriors in single hand-held takes, Herba's film makes an intense observation of how a given light setting will appear different under different conditions: the boy is walking down an overexposed street, he ducks into his car, the camera ducking with him, and is suddenly in perfect exposure...