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...color also came from the uniforms of the official personnel--part of the official "dynamic color palette" chosen by the Olympic Committee for these games. "Brilliant hot magenta, bright vermillion, clear aqua, rich chrome yellow, and vivid green are the five primary Olympic Look colors," according to a promotional release...
Eight thousand banners, did you say? Covering 120 miles of Los Angeles? Hanging from 300 different types of lampposts? O.K. Some of the brackets for the banners had to be different too; a real headache. Certainly not, you wouldn't want to use just any colors. Had to be magenta, vermilion, chrome yellow, violet, aqua. "Festive Federalism," the designers call it. (What does that mean?) Oh, sorry. Please go on. You were talking about construction: 3,500 construction workers at 67 different (sites, including Olympic Villages, places for the Games, training facilities, parking lots. That is, if the cars...
...this thing? No, not the $525 million budget or the anticipated infusion of $3.3 billion into the local economy or the 269,000 dozen cookies. One million new trees planted by a conservation group? Good for them. Nothing like a tree. The question is why. Why, as the magenta was going up at the Los Angeles Coliseum, were 7,800 athletes from 140 nations loading their gear and kissing Mother goodbye? Numbers? Here's a number. On July 28, 2 billion people of the great trembling bipolar world will lay down their washing and watch these Games...
...case you have wondered: magenta, cyan (blue), yellow and black are the basic printing "colors" that are combined to produce almost all other hues, hence the term four-color. Metallic glosses, such as gold, silver and copper, are called fifth colors...
...clean and fresh as a magenta night sky, Georgia O'Keeffe's canvases have long evoked both the energy and the purity of her adopted American Southwest. And now, at the age of 94, O'Keeffe has turned anew to a medium she all but abandoned in 1917: sculpture. Apparently inspired by her assistant and acolyte, Juan Hamilton, 36, O'Keeffe finally completed Abstraction, an 11-ft. spiral of painted cast aluminum. Now on display in a sculpture show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, her first major work as a sculptor gives...