Word: grayness
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...museums). For the best Lincolns, bringing him to life means hours of prep; those docents in Maryland may not ask you back if you can't perform a speech Lincoln gave in the state. And then there are the costuming challenges--carefully shaving your upper lip, coloring the gray from your whiskers, suffering the assumptions of those who mistake you for a lost Amishman...
...Karpov then erred, taking a time-out that gave his opponent a chance to recover. When play resumed five days later, Kasparov, following the custom of changing garb after a defeat, was wearing a new, light-gray suit, and confidently played to a draw that broke Karpov's run. Because he could retain his title with a tie, Kasparov had merely to draw the next three games. But caution is not his style, and he attacked in the first part of Game 22. The next day a rapt Leningrad audience watched as officials revealed the move Kasparov had decided...
When film fans dream of old movies, they dream in black and white. They think of Lillian Gish's Scarlet Letter emblazoned in gray. For them the true colors of Red River, Blue Denim, Golden Boy and Green Pastures are those shades of pearl and ivory determined by the films' cinematographers. And when Bogie says, "Here's looking at you, kid," movie lovers gaze at Ingrid Bergman in glorious monochrome...
...golden oldies are either profitable inventory or chopped celluloid. And now the archives are being raided by technicians with a new idea: "colorizing" the black-and-white films of Hollywood's Golden Age through computer wizardry. The film is copied onto video and broken down into gradations of gray. An "art director" sits at a console and chooses the colors for each face, dress and prop, which the computerized "paintbrush" adds frame by frame. (Cost per film: about $180,000.) Voilàh! Jimmy Stewart's Christmas tree in It's a Wonderful Life is as green as greenbacks...
...wasting their time with novels unless they are picking up facts will welcome Süskind's encyclopedic overview of the methods of making perfume. Like the best scents, there is something fundamentally formulaic about this novel, but its effects will linger long after it has been stoppered. --By Paul Gray Best Sellers...