Word: colors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until some actor promotes it as a vehicle for his own glorification. Shakespeare for itself, no). The Workshop did for "Troilus and Cressida" what museum workers have done for old masters; they scraped away the centuries' accumulated alterations, "improvements," and dust; they restored it to its natural vigor and color. It was the Workshop's most noble effort, and, surprisingly enough, one that proved commercially ennobling, also...
...measures the distance of a star by studying its color, which changes as the light passes through the dust clouds of space. Shapley looks at variable stars, which grow brighter and dimmer with a regular period. This period often depends on the absolute brightness of the star; when Shapley knows the absolute brightness and the brightness as seen from the earth, he can easily determine the star's distance...
...rard had only to ask, with an archbishop's solemnity, "Isn't pink a lovely color?" to send designers running to their shelves. He turned out a stream of ideas for ballet, stage and screen, designed the sets and costumes for such notable numbers as The Madwoman of Chaillot (TIME...
...opening party, to rub shoulders with her bigwig friends and Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, saw few paint cans on display (they were tucked out of sight). But there were painters' sponges growing on papier-mâché trees, wallpaper displays in shadow boxes, and some dazzling color schemes...
...Dream Is Yours (Warner) is a lightheaded musical as full of color and tunes as a jukebox. It has all been done before-frequently much better. A sort of musicomedy The Hucksters, it involves a radio talent scout (Jack Carson), his Hollywood boss (Adolphe Menjou) and a blonde disc jockey (Doris...