Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the hub of a wagon wheel, he stared out across a tan Pacific of endless real estate and then placed three small words on the threshold of infinity: The Big Country. To credit the cast and crew of The Seven Year Itch, he used a set of pastel panels opening like tessellated greeting cards. That was all. But the colors and layout were as visually delightful as a Mondrian in motion. And the t in Itch scratched itself...
...capitalist culture and its last 3 paragraphs to explaining why the reviewer is a better Marxist than the author of the book seems hopelessly dated and quaint. Occasionally the proletcult critics were unconsciously quite funny--witness Mike Gold's attacks on Thornton Wilder. Wilder's religion was "a pastel, pastiche, dilettante religion, without the true neurotic blood and fire, a daydream of homosexual figures in graceful gowns moving archaically among the lilies. Or his description of Archibald MacLeish: a "white collar fascist out of Harvard and Wall Street." But they were mostly as dreary as the proletarian novelists they praised...
...have refused to relax the Sunday curfew on liquor. But these are minor matters, and most of Seattle has pitched in with a will, dolled up the city to a fare-thee-well. Trees and colorful news kiosks have sprouted on downtown streets; and parking meters now come in pastel hues. Some 131 projects are being renovated to give the old town a facelift...
...guests are dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves; fit-looking soldiers march past in cadenced columns; phalanxes of workers with banners roar out slogans extolling the greatness of Communism and hatred of "American imperialism." Here, evidently, is all the panoplied might of a confident and messianic power...
There are cynics, no doubt, who have believed that the addition of several murky pastel shades to the architectural embellishments of Radcliffe's dorms--metamorphosing the Quad into something resembling a child's building block set--would forever remain the sole achievement of Mrs. Bunting's new house system. However much that first product of Radcliffe's revolution may have offended even the most meager aesthetic sensibilities, it has apparently not yet blighted the talent of Radcliffe's artists. The second product of the new system, an art exhibit at South House, provides a most pleasant change from the obnoxious...