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...rural Russia on an ethnological survey in 1889 and there saw a lot of folk art. Its rigid iconography and flamboyant patterns made a vast impression on him; the ceremonious detail of his later abstractions, with their tiny squares, circles and triangles "tuning" each other like embroidery-as in Pink Sweet, No. 481, 1929-is very Russian. Even Kandinsky's subsequent color theory, his belief in the character and meaning of different colors and their use as a structured language, may well have stemmed from the symbolic use of color in Russian popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Endowed with Life | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...Pink Floyd. Music Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: music | 5/4/1972 | See Source »

...command module Casper, Duke and Young stared out their cabin window onto the sundrenched Cayley Plains. Near their spacecraft, they excitedly reported to scientists back in Mission Control, was a large variety of rocks and boulders, some as big as 10 ft. across, glistening in shades of white and pink and gray. "All we have to do is jump out the hatch and we've got plenty of rocks," exclaimed Duke. The astronauts also reported brilliantly gleaming ray patterns -splashes of material gouged from the moon's interior by meteorite impacts -and telltale layering on the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Adventure at Descartes | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...gatehouses are ex-Marine combat veterans of the Viet Nam War. "More than likely, the presence of a guard cuts out a lot of crime," understates John Rogers, a burly guard. Nearby Rossmoor Leisure World, in Laguna Hills, is a retirement community surrounded by six-foot-high pink walls and guarded by a security force of 170 unarmed resident patrolmen led by four armed professionals. They man the community's eight carefully guarded gates and patrol its streets round the clock in radio cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Fortress California | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...morning on Monday. The occupation is 93 hours old. The bodies sleep without sound. The fear that their sleep might be interrupted by a club in the head or a police boot in the groin has long since died within them. In the hallway outside, a girl in a pink blanket informs the few still awake downstairs that it's after curfew and everyone but the Night Crew should be sleeping. In the timelessness inside this occupied building, her directive has a physical authority, and the last bodies find their ways to the floor. Everyone inside is aware that...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Ain't They Got No Shame? | 4/25/1972 | See Source »

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