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Painted on the fence facing President Pusey's office were political remarks addressed to Pusey, ROTC, and Judge Elija Adlow '15. "Welcome to the liberated zone," "Do it in the road," and "Up against the wall" greeted readers. A pastel yellow abstract covering at least five panels faced University Hall...
Dozens of Crimeds, clad in pastel shirts, entered the competition, held in a room carefully designed to simulate a television studio. Coach Joel R. Kramer began to rapid-fire questions at them, and made a record of who answered what...
HERBIE HANCOCK, SPEAK LIKE A CHILD (Blue Note). This piano album is a fine montage of pastel moods. Delicately blended harmonic shades slide and merge in misty orchestrations of Speak and Goodbye to Childhood (with Thad Jones on flügelhorn, Peter Phillips on bass trombone and Jerry Dodgion on alto flute). In Riot, First Trip and Sorcerer, the piano skips along with mellow modal lines and bright blues splashes. Drummer Mickey Roker and Bassist Ron Carter are Hancock's hearty helpers...
Ravaging the Retinas. Perhaps the frugging, neon-lit, chromium-plated, plastic, pastel peregrinations of the times demanded a breathless roller-coaster rush of words to re-create the "shockkkkkk" of the real-life experience. But too often, Wolfe, dressed for the role in orange or off-white suits, merely seemed like an action-painter-writer recklessly ravaging the retinas with pastel word-blobs. Was he freaking out at the reader's expense? Was he in fact a social critic using a comic-strip writer's approach or a flack for pop cultists? A high priest of the gadgetry...
...fast shuffle increased the agency's total annual billings to over $90 million. And Mary Wells, whose Braniff brainstorms (pastel planes, Pucci stewardess uniforms) did a great deal for her husband's business, apparently sees no problem in being first lady for one airline and wonder girl for another...