Word: fuchsia
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...Francisco and Chicago and Bloomingdale's in New York, which has eight departments (including one named In Flight) selling jumpsuitery, they come in soft, billowy silks and satins, polished cotton and gabardine, velvet and crepe de Chine in art deco prints. Head-turning hues include purple, burgundy, fuchsia, aubergine, white and that ol' black magic...
...what turned Davis into a complete original was his perception of and enthusiasm for the city. Nothing in French art, other than Leger, resembled Davis' syncopated images of urban life. The blaring posterish color- yellows, scarlets, blacks, emerald greens, a high obtrusive fuchsia - and the writhing knots of line, the words blinking like neon signs, the beat and pulsation of the space: this was visual jazz, American-style, and in deed some of Davis' titles, like The Mellow Pad, 1945-51, were couched in the musicians' argot...
...finger painting. One of the most innovative designers is Paula Johnson, who has turned one customer's fingernails into a handful of cards (a full house). Manicurist Dyan Hill, who had five years of art school, recently deployed a Chinese dragon in turquoise, gold, orange, lime green and fuchsia for Singer Linda Miles. Says Hill: "I found that painting designs on nails has a way of combining my art and my profession...
...play this game seriously and I think scientifically," said Roger Barrett, a member of the high-ranked Fuchsia team from Berkeley, Calif. He and his cohorts had practiced such exotic deliveries as sidearms, thumbers, under-hands and upside-down wrist flips no less than three hours a day for months -but to no avail. They lost in the finals to the defending champion Highland Avenue Aces of Wilmette, 111., who had coolly scouted out the weak spots in the Californians' game. During the match, the winners destroyed Fuchsia's confidence with a steady stream of verbal taunts...
Muskie had marched to Manchester's Notre Dame Church in a parade sponsored by four New Hampshire and Maine Snowshoe Clubs. Each club was represented by a marching band dressed in tunics. Robin Hood boots and beanie caps in the two technicolor shades of their town--purple and orange, fuchsia and black, mauve and tangerine Watching the tired, somber 6 ft. 4 in. Muskie, attired entirely in black from his Russian cap to the circles under his eyes, move into the midst of the Snowshoe groups to shake hands one might properly ask. "Who was the wiseacre film director...