Word: magenta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNTIL last year, each pre-registration issue of the CRIMSON included a fairly long and detailed article on the history of the CRIMSON from its founding in 1873 as the Magenta to the present ("a large business with a gross of almost $200,000 a year...
...there was no mention of ecology at all. As a matter of fact, it is reasonable to assume that his activities do more to upset the balance of nature than do anything positive for the environment. One might well ask how much small marine life was poisoned by the magenta dye which Mr. Oppenheim foolishly and recklessly released into a Caribbean cove. He should be fined for causing pollution. OTTO F. REISS...
...Waves of Magenta. Last fall the two artists teamed up to visit the island of Tobago in the British West Indies. The resulting show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was composed of some surprisingly beautiful underwater photographs, and charted new ecological territory. Hutchinson strung out calabash, a local fruit, so that it floated eerily in the sea; he also transferred yellow leguminous flowers from nearby slopes to the ocean floor. Oppenheim, long intrigued by the "incredibly irregular" patterns of U.S. Highway 20 he had observed on maps, decided to transfer the configuration of the highway to water...
...Adolph Gottlieb. Avery and friends sketched frequently at each other's homes. Seated Blonde resulted from one such session in 1946, when the model turned out to be a strapping 6-ft. beauty named Stella, daughter of that week's host. Avery combined pink with burnt sienna, magenta and crimson, with all the jangling dissonance of half a dozen crashing cymbals. It is this bravado with color that has often led him to be viewed as a kind of American Matisse...
Resplendent in a magenta shirt and fringed-leather jacket, Dr. Timothy Leary, 49, the guru of psychedelia, heard a Laredo, Texas, jury convict him for the second time of smuggling marijuana from Mexico in his daughter's underwear. "Stay loving and keep cool," advised the smiling impenitent, whose first conviction for the 1965 border incident was thrown out by the Supreme Court. "I am sorry the Government learned nothing in five years...