Word: colors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color network, already blushing red, was gleefully jabbed black and blue by its rivals. On the CBS Sunday Evening News, Harry Reasoner reported the outcome of the game: "Heidi married the goatherder." The ABC Evening News staged its own electronic "bedtime story," with Anchorman Frank Reynolds reading excerpts from Heidi while Sportscaster Howard Cosell repeatedly interrupted with film clips of the game and suitably frantic commentary. Sounding very much like a quarterback caught in his own end zone, NBC President Julian Goodman said lamely: "It was a forgivable error committed by humans who were concerned about children expecting...
Nobody Dares. "Ken was doing psychedelic colorings before anyone even knew what psychedelic was all about," says Manhattan Fashion Illustrator Joe Eula. "Nobody dares to put color next to color the way he does." Scott also anticipated the Bonnie and Clyde look back in 1963, with clunky shoes and floppy beach pajamas. He was an early advocate of "unisex," designing his-and-her matching pants suits two years...
...another pair of books-the 19th and 20th-in the Sierra Club's devoted campaign in behalf of conservation. The textual message is sorely understated, but the incomparable color photography and reproduction make the point emphatically. The wildlife and sheer natural beauty of the Galapagos Islands (600 miles off the coast of Ecuador) inspired Herman Melville, who is quoted in the text, and Charles Darwin, who found in the ecology there the laws of natural selection that led to Origin of Species. It is to be hoped that Eliot Porter's fine pictures will not conjure up thoughts...
This year's Rembrandt book. The text by Art Scholar Horst Gerson is for the most part mercifully purged of art history jargon. Eighty big color reproductions (book size: 14¾ in. by 11¼ in.) have been carefully printed to reduce the yellow cast of ancient varnish that customarily obscures Rembrandt's backgrounds. The result, though it sometimes gives the impression that the paintings have just been overzealously cleaned and scraped, offers a rare chance to linger over details normally lost in murk. Weight: 10½ pounds...
...Nader stage of auto-erotica: a chronological arrangement of 100 carefully detailed 10½-in. by 13¼-in. color renderings of such classic cream puffs as the 1853 Dudgeon Steam Wagon, the 1898 Riker Electric Tricycle and the 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout...