Word: pastel
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...aged and handicapped. Some are evidently needy, others perhaps not. All sit patiently in a musty anteroom of an old gray school-house on Denver's shabby south side. The wait is long, sometimes half a day or more, for the chance to enter one of the pastel-colored, 6-ft.-sq. cubicles and apply for food stamps. Those who qualify take their ID cards and wait in line at a cashier's window for coupons redeemable for anywhere from $10 to several hundred dollars' worth of groceries...
WITH FAST, INTUITIVE brush strokes Carlos Diegues" Bye Bye Brazil captures the spirit of an entire subcontinent in the flux of modernization. Rambling from the dusty old town of Pirhanhas in the Northeast where the facades of buildings look like pastel stagesets, to the parched hopelessness of the plains, down into the teeming Amazon jungles and out to the polluted, industrial port cities and the awkward metropolis of Brasilia, the film follows its motley heroes feeling their way from the old to new. Diegues revels in the journey, sketching his way across the country recording the colors and complexities...
...history and the resonance of those fragments are so strong that even out of chronological sequence they form their own associations, like a Joseph Cornell collage. Some of the colors may be psychedelic, but the shadings are the pastel of memory, the patina made of remembered melody. Lennon, the only wedded Beatle -he had married Cynthia in 1962 and had a son, Julian-had early been typed as the most restless, outspoken and creative of the group, even though he led, outwardly, the most settled life. There was paradox in this popular portrait, just as there was considerable tension...
...Under pastel parasols on a pastoral set, the stars gathered for a Victorian garden party: Maureen O'Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, Fritz Weaver, Celeste Holm. But there was not a film crew in sight. The occasion? A benefit to revive the Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, N. Y., an event that turned into a surprise 80th-birthday party for Local Resident Helen Hayes. Broadway's longtime First Lady bubbled over at the prospect of restoring the old theater where she and such "dear friends" as Jack Benny, Tallulah Bankhead and Beatrice Lillie once played. She was no less pleased...
...simple outline of a vase supports very simply painted flowers. Using a minimum of strokes, Munter has made the stems stick out at jagged angles like a spider's legs. The flowers stand out in sharp contrast to the wall behind them which is painted in blocks of dark pastel colors. Finally, Munter became interested in religious objects, painting them in many of her later works, often in an mystical way, as in her Still Life with St. George, a painting mostly in dark, eerie blues and greens of two creche figures, two Madonnas, and St. George arranged with flowers...