Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ETERNAL LIGHT (NBC, 12 noon-1 p.m.). In the first segment of a program observing the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Roberta Peters talks with music critics and Commentator Martin Bookspan about her travels in Israel. Part II, entitled "Habima 50," tells the story of the 50-year-old Israeli National Theater...
Plastics will revolutionize the way our homes look as much as the Bauhaus or the Scandinavian moderns did. They can be brightly pigmented and highly light reflecting--we may be surrounded with color and shine at no extra cost. Opaque orange umbrella stands and chairs and translucent turquoise inflatable armchairs are at the show and on the market. Many of these furnishings are still outrageously expensive, but prices will go down...
...eyes pass through them. Eiffel's tower and Paxton's Crystal Palace introduced a new kind of building where space flowed through instead of stopping at the walls. And Plexiglas furniture changes the interior from an organization of volumes in space to a mere description of space drawn with light patterns of color and reflection...
...words, "Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand." It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer (ideally he should drool as well as lisp), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question, be careful to pick an assistant with ones yet more questionable, say a quickie doctorate from the University of Guatemala...
...afforded themselves and others, these artists reveal a sublimely naive attitude toward their business, if not their craft. They are often unwilling to acknowledge the development of American film into a major mass-produced consumer product thriving on standardization. They know they were great: that their best cameraman could light like Rembrandt and did, that their designers recreated detail with unsurpassed fidelity, most of all that the degree of collaborative improvisation they enjoyed produced high art and certainly America's greatest screen comedy. The joy with which they took chances, the willingness to sacrifice themselves, the interest in experimentation makes...