Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House representatives will meet weekly with Dr. Warren Wecker, director of UHS; Dr. Sholen Pastel, moderate director; Dr. William Kandon '96 bend of the emergency word; Dr. Kenneth Dinklage, head of psychiatry; Dr. Paul Walters, head of psychology, and Muriel Cunningham, head of nursing...
...first, the $1.50 paperback looks like another inspirational spin-off of the Jesus Revolution. Bearing the title The Life Story of Jesus, its slick cover shows a pastel Jesus in red-polka-dot robes (a poster version is available for another $1.50). But who is the author, Levi Alphaeus? The introduction says he was a Galilean tax collector who "later adopted the name Matthew." He is better known as St. Matthew the Evangelist. A California entrepreneur named Joseph Rank simply took Matthew's Gospel (from the New American Standard Bible, Rank admits), tricked it up in poetic format...
With her husband, an upholsterer, she collects and sells "Depression glass"-those transparent pastel plates, pitchers and glasses that used to be given away as bonuses for buying certain items during the Depression -and makes as much as $200 on a good...
...lack for humor: "Celestial," the last of the three parts, breaks the more serious, introspective mood of the preceding works with a jab at ballet and even at rock dancing. From the wings leap blue-jeaned, mod T-shirted dancers to the classical strains of Tchaikovsky while simultaneously, pastel lights expose large cardboard stars, ringed Saturn, a large puffy white cloud, and a smiling crescent moon dropping down from the heavens. When the mock Corps de Ballet appears together--barely a semblance of unity--they cause bursts of laughter by purposely bumping into one another and getting out of step...
...Epic in Twilight" effectively resolves these inner conflicts, strongly and lyrically through the explicitness of dance movement. Reminiscent of surreal landscapes--curvy, wriggling plants and fairy-tale, almost anthrophomorphic animals of prey--the scenes are washed over by pastel lights and costumes running together like dew dripping from blades of grass. The dancers paint a moving tableau, a soft flowing watercolor with occasional sharp lines that cut at the pastel mist recalling the surprise surreal of Rene Magrette's imagery, the playfulness of Paul Klee's animal compositions, and an accent of slithery, lurking evil. The opening scene contrasts...