Word: colors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHAT HAS the Lampoon done? It has published a periodical which includes a couple of decent jokes, a shelf full of bad ones carved out of overworked motifs, a bunch of color photographs taken by the same guys who take pictures for Life, and five pages of Life advertising plus a mail-in Life subscription card...
There are some good things which can be said of this parody. In layout, it is remarkably like Life, and its insipid color photographs of nature's wonders are a fine exaggeration of Life's tendencies in that direction. While not much of the copy is consistently funny, the essay on the mobile heart transplant team that plucks 'em while they're hot from accident victims whose eyes are closed is an excellent...
...Spiro Agnew in green on the cover is very appropriate. That's exactly the color I turn when I think how close he might get to the presidency...
Before the Mongols, porcelain was glazed in one color. Under the Yuan rulers, blue-and-white vessels were developed, and became widely popular. One of the 32 pieces in the Cleveland show belonged to the 17th century Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most...
Cambridge, however, is equally full of excellent prints and reproductions, though an important distinction should be made between the two. A print is a work which the artist himself designed to be printed in many copies and therefore planned in composition, color scheme, and impact with this in mind. A reproduction is a photographic copy of an original -- any original...