Word: colors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Color the land red for revolution...
...FROM A distance of more than two feet, the copies can pass for the originals. Rockefeller's craftsmen used a photographic process called Cibachrome to suggest the texture as well as the color of paint. To a viewer with no forewarning, the copy would give him the same "experience" as the original. It is the critic's bias against the reproduction that somehow makes it "worse." If the reproductions offer the same experience as the original, why shouldn't they be considered worthwhile? For centuries artists have reproduced their art--engravers like Albrecht Durer and William Blake made rough woodblocks...
...ceramics, Korea was unsurpassed by her neighbors. During the Koryo dynasty (A.D. 918-1392), even the Chinese praised Korean pottery, marveling that "the secret color of Koryo is the first under heaven." The secret color was celadon, a haunting shade of pale green applied in rich, oily glazes. Breaking from the self-conscious traditions of the Chinese, the Korean potters indulged their own romantic sensibilities, producing elegant, elongated vessels. Some bloomed into flowers and animals-a water dropper took the form of a monkey; a tea dish the shape of a water lily...
There is plenty of tame local color, including what must be some of the least erotic whorehouse sequences ever recorded in an R-rated film. Unlike Novelist Theroux, Bogdanovich does not have a particularly keen descriptive eye; he goes for tourist snapshots instead of true grit. Except for Denholm Elliott, who offers a fastidious portrait of a typically down-and-out British colonial, the actors do little to help the proceedings. Gazzara is fairly blameless, given his flat role, but the miscasting of his con-man nemesis is a disaster. Had a strong actor played the villain, who recalls Harry...
...letters beginning, "When you return in September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court to do a guest shot as color commentator for a local baseball team, the Greensboro Hornets. Red Barber, meet your New York exchange student...