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...problem was now to set those planes in motion; for that, Kupka resorted to one of the great novelties of the time, the high-speed sequential chronographs of pioneer Photographer Etienne-Jules Marcy-multiple exposures that bridged the gap between still photography and the movie cam era. His pastel studies of his wife picking flowers, done in this mode around 1909-10, are of extraordinary interest, preceding Duchamp's famous Nude Descending a Staircase by two years. Like wise, the paintings Kupka made later-a series of abstract color disks rotating in space-appear to have influenced Robert Delaunay...
From the fifth inning on, I could not take my eyes off her. She had splendid brown hair that bounced and she wore pastel blue like a picture in a 1940s magazine. It didn't look as though she smiled that much; she just gracefully extended her legs over the concrete ledge past the red rail and not even the foul balls--hot white smears that lunged her way after inside pitches--seemed to faze her. There were half a dozen men around her, and a little boy beside her; I was in the eighth row, in a chairback seat...
...common vocabulary of form, turning composition into a science. As you'd expect, his "House of the White Man" looks like an architectural sketch. In contrast, his "Dictum" of the same year could have been done by a Dadaists. It consists of a word collage over a pink pastel valentine...
...recent past, they are waving off hard drugs and hard political lines in favor of good-time music and that oldest of adolescent verities: fun. Gone are the trademarks of yesteryear: denim fatigues, dove-crowned peace flags, bottles of Ripple wine. In their place can be found pastel tennis shoes, American flags and Tab. Many fans come in halter tops for a suntan and to be part of the carnival scene. They just want to dance boogie and sing along. Says Chicago Lyricist Robert Lamm, 30: "These days nobody wants to hear songs that have a message...
...classic case--fated to frustration, needless to say--is the lovesick student who hopes that his heart can flame forth anew after the fire of a once-torrid affair has been snuffed out in the frigid winter. As women fill the streets of Cambridge in their low-cut pastel dresses, as men walk by in their tight-fitting T-shirts, this unattached youth sighs in paralysis at the endless possibilities passing by Sadly the student pauses in the reading of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy to dream of the distant beach or nightclub where a future mate languishes...