Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...model homes constructed and was ready to begin selling. The modest, basically similar, concrete-block houses ranged from $8,750 for a two-bedroom structure to $11,600 for a three-bedroom and two-bath house. On the first week end, purchasers bought 272 of the neat and gay pastel houses-and the flow has not stopped since. In 1960 the Webb company sold 1,472 houses and 262 apartments for about $17.5 million-and 60% of the sales were for cash. This year the company is building a second batch of slightly larger houses that sell for from...
This one, however, is in color; brilliant reproductions-from Rubens to Rembrandt-fill the screen, with occasionally interspersed photographs of the pastel landscape of the Holy Land as it is now. Accompanied by a superb Robert Russell Bennett score, detail follows detail from the works of the masters-the pale, thin-lipped face of the Virgin in Rogier van der Weyden's Annunciation, fearful tears in the aged eyes of a Jordaens shepherd, Massys' open-mouthed Magi. Skillfully but not trickily panning across the pictures from face to face, scene to scene, Producer-Director Donald Hyatt achieves...
...Casablanca's teeming Mzdina Orharab quarter last week, veiled Moroccan matrons surreptitiously rummaged through piles of secondhand brassieres, modestly hid their purchases under their flowing djellabah cloaks. Mothers with babies tied to their backs bought young daughters pastel organdy dresses...
...back of the room. The rest of the tables belonged to the newspapers and magazines; they were divided by a center aisle of television sets, three facing left and three facing right. Another four sets were placed next to each other in an adjoining room; here also were the pastel phones giving direct access to long distance operators that have been almost a trademark of the Kennedy press facilities this year. Another room contained Western Union headquarters, while an Associated Press ticker downstairs hammered out the special election wire. Sandwiches, donuts, coffee and soft drinks (and, early Wednesday morning, hard...
...north of Quebec Square, and two other spots nearby, are found of match box homes, newly paint- pastel colors. The occupants are, past part, skilled workers and factory to with occasional young professional junior executives. But as one gets a mile north or south of Route 6 (feet) the houses become larger and the year more and more frequently. In her homes are bankers, professional people, and executives of industries in nearby Wind ham and Hartford Counties...