Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebellion & Innovation. Bradley Walker Tomlin's abstract expressionism (see overleaf) with its mingling of signature brush strokes, does not seem so far removed in its liquid pastel forms from Pop Artist James Rosenquist's more explicit Fruit Salad. Larry Poons's placement of blue spots on a field of gold in Aqua Regia produces a Mexican-jumping-bean effect of afterimage dots; yet he has no more corner on optical effects than Bonnard, whom one young first-nighter enjoyed as "a guy who used phosphorescent, Day-glo paint before the stuff was invented or used...
...still those with negative benefits: a Siberian tiger named King rides around on a horse named Tiger and does NOT eat him; a Mexican acrobat does a triple somersault-the one that gave Burt Lancaster all that trouble in Trapeze-and does NOT fall: Helena Rassy's pastel-dyed pigeons are released from the balcony and flutter down to her and NOT into the crowd...
...formidable task. Mauritania, for example, is practically a movable country, whose Moorish nomads wander after water in passportless circles through neighboring Mali and Algeria. Since every country must have a capital, Mauritania had to build one from scratch: Nouakchott (pop. 8,000), a clump of pastel cubes on a bleak stretch of sand dunes near the coast. In Laos, there are so few trained government elite-about 100 in all-that Cabinet making is essentially a game of musical chairs. Ethnic vivisection abounds nearly everywhere. The Somali peoples are split up among Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and French Somaliland...
Norell did not stop there. After all, if one can wear a nightshirt to a museum opening, why not pajamas to a dinner party or discotheque? Made of loosely fitting silk crepe, his pj's are the last word in fancy pants, come either in solid pastel shades or striking two-tone jester designs. For those who want to dazzle as well as dance, he proposes black beaded pajamas, finished off with a fringe at the ankle...
...Drag Tires" are available at $34.80 apiece. Sears last year introduced a 64-page special catalogue of imported-car parts, saw the entire 200,000-copy issue snapped up almost immediately. The home furnishings lists have been upgraded, now include double-door refrigerators, solid state hi-fis, print and pastel bed sheets...