Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot, in fact, is minimal. A pleasant place called Pepperland is invaded by a tribe of amorphous music-hating monsters called the Blue Meanies, who launch a devastating attack with "splotch guns," which drain their victims of color, and a ferocious Flying Glove, with jet propulsion and a sinister intelligence of its own. The Meanies' ranks fight the Apple Bonkers (who drop big green apples on people's heads) and the Snapping Turtle Turks with sharks' mouths for stomachs...
Most Horrible Sound. At CBS, Goldmark's bursts of innovation keep management watchful. His first color-TV system, far simpler than today's color models, was rejected because it would have required the junking of all black-and-white broadcasting equipment then in existence. Though engineers had been working on long-playing records for years, Goldmark did not try his hand at it until he listened to a recorded Vladimir Horowitz concert and despaired at the periodic clunks of rejecting 78-r.p.m. records-"the most horrible sound man ever made." In 2½ years, he had compressed...
...time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent." He is particularly ferocious toward the press: "The headline of the Daily News today reads BRUNETTE STABBED TO DEATH. Underneath in lower-case letters: '6,000 Killed in Iranian Earthquake.' I wonder what color hair they...
Nolan's cover is an overture for the book. Its color is old-moss green, the green of stale water. The page is divided by an unbroken sea-horizon. Running the edge of the even ocean is the boat of the poems -- "our soul...a three master seeking port." An old-fashioned wire grave fence spans the dark sky. Behind the fence hover five "characters" -- anonymous creatures. They are placed like a line-up of black sheep to carry us into the dream-vision of the book. We see them again and again -- hermetic figures, alone, hungry, against the austere...
Nolan's choice of colors -- muddy and wine-toned greens, blues, reds and yellows -- is effective. One fascinating monochrome is of a red hissing swan coiled in a white bankrupt-of-shade-or-blue-sky -- "Its heart was full of its blue lakes, and screamed: 'Water, when will you fall?'" The color illustrations are more specific and representational than the black and white -- and less effective. They are less of dream, less inventive, less demanding of imagination...