Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recent months have proved that a movie in three dimensions does not necessarily have depth; A Lion is in the Streets demonstrates that a picture in Technicolor is not necessarily colorful. In fact, in every respect bur one, this film is drab and pale. The exception is James Cagney's portrayal of Hank Martin, the ambitious backwoods peddler who almost "lynched a whole state." Against the rest of the film, Martin stands out like a Lutree potrait superimposed on a black-and-white pencil sketch...
...clusters, like petals about a flower, but each cluster is removed from the main part of the building. To get the shape of the classrooms, Perkins and Will experimented with full-scale diagrams on a gym floor. The circle and square, they decided, were too imprisoning; the pentagon was drab, the octagon confusing. The architects' final decision: the hexagon...
Before the show moved on to Dresden this week, East Germany's Premier Otto Grotewohl picked the exhibit's "best." His choice: a drab and dreary panel of tea-swigging functionaries, painted by seven artists and called Meeting of the Presidium of the Academy of Science of the U.S.S.R. Declared Grotewohl: "It is colossal." And so it was-19 ft. 6 in. long by 9 ft. 10 in. high...
Many a lonely U.S. soldier has cursed the olive drab as he watched an enlisted marine, in the blue and scarlet of a dress uniform, move on to a dance floor. Last week, after years of fretting over the dreary appearance of its enlisted men, the Army finally gave G.I.s a break. On formal occasions, enlisted men as well as officers may now sport a dress uniform consisting of a dark blue coat with gold chevrons and sky blue pants with a gold stripe. To acquire this finery will cost a G.I. about $80 (roughly a month...
...years, Quinquela tried to persuade the city government to let him repaint Buenos Aires' aluminum-drab trolleys and buses. Finally the city let him do one bus in pink, red, green and blue. He has been less successful in his campaign against black coffins, especially for artists, despite a telling argument: "Why should we who owe our very bread to color go to our graves in black boxes?" In his will. Colorist Quinquela has ordered that his own coffin be soft pink inside, with blue top, vermilion ends and green sides...