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...ideas is the cubist who emerged after 1906. Kitaj, on the other hand, devotes a number of his drawings to making strange pasiches of immature Picasso, the artist of the blue period, with his wistful clowns and phthisic women. Kitaj's three Bathers, with their iridescent blooms of pastel and general air of tentative anxiety, pay homage to the blue period. But they stare from the paper with the look of rough creatures trapped in an alien element, refugees from Goya and Velásquez as well as from the 20th century. This ability to suggest cultural continuity...
Confirmation is but half a mile away. No presidential candidate is in Manchester today, but there is a political gathering. At the pastel-carpeted office of New Hampshire's recently elected Republican Senator, Gordon Humphrey, people are lined up to chat about problems that rarely change, whoever is President...
...year-old retreat for the reclusive, recherche and rich, from Gable to Streisand, the Hana caravansary sprinkles its pastel-colored bungalows (only 57 rooms) over 20 acres of manicured grass, perched between a 14,000-acre cattle ranch and the sandy half-moon of Hamoa Beach. Manager Tony de Jetley, an urbane Englishman who is married to a beautiful Hawaiian curiously named Alberta, enumerates 69 regular activities for hotel guests and their children; they range from frond weaving and night tide-pool fishing to breakfast cookouts and quarter-horse riding through terrain often photographed for Marlboro ads. Some families return...
...ceremony was as flavorful and varied as Kenya itself. Native chieftains in python-skin and ostrich-feather robes, Indian women hi flowing, pastel-shaded saris, black and white Kenyans in khaki safari outfits or pinstripe suits crowded around the dais in Nairobi's Uhuru (freedom in Swahili) Park. Hundreds of tribal dancers in monkey-skin skirts and black feather headdresses swayed rhythmically, rattling anklets made of Coca-Cola bottletops and ululating cries of praise. Naval battalions boomed out a 21-gun salute, and there was an ear-cracking, low-flying aeronautics display by fighters of the Kenya air force...
...musical is really a kind of razzle-dazzle--that kind of gossamer, pastel quality in the film isn't there... there's no point in doing something from another medium in the same way," he says, noting that he has written over 100 songs for the show--about 15 of which made it to the final product...