Word: pastel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vegas entertainments: Sinatra, Streisand, stand-up comedians, the trash rococo of Liberace, both flaunting and denying his gayness; hot-ticket singer-dancers like Ann-Margret; and shows with whiffy themes that existed as mere pretexts for bringing out brigades of suggestively costumed young women jiggling through clouds of pastel-colored smoke as overamped pop tunes blared. It was cheesy glamour, to be sure, but it was rare and one of a kind...
Some of the more stunning selections include incredible feats of human contortion, private body parts in pastel-iced splendor, and animal acts like you never saw on David Letterman...
...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...
...exhibit includes a number of works that are rarely seen owing to their fragility and sensitivity to light. Among the highlights: Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte -- 1884, the masterpiece most closely identified with the institute; Rembrandt's Young Woman at an Open Half-Door; Degas's pastel On the & Stage; Cezanne sketchbooks; Picasso prints and Walker Evans photographs. Through...
...later piece, "Light, Dry Poem" (1938), exemplifies Klee's experiments with color and texture. On burlap, black lines surround pastel shapes. The place seems to be Klee's expression of his belief that "art does not render the visible; rather it makes visible...