Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinians. Leaders on both sides in the Lebanon fighting hailed the deal as a promising start. "It's the best that could be had under the circumstances," said Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami. As the truce hour approached one morning last week and the first guns went silent, a rainbow broke out in the sky over Beirut. At week's end, the truce was holding with only small and scattered violations...
...Bess, returning in the full operatic panoply of George Gershwin's original version (TIME, July 19), has for four straight weeks broken all box-office records for a legitimate Broadway show. The black edition of Guys and Dolls, the long-running The Wiz (Oz over a different rainbow), and Bubbling Brown Sugar, a revue celebrating Harlem in its Cotton Club heyday, are all doing turnaway business. So is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a "choreopoem" about being black and female that is one of the most poignant dramas to fill a commercial...
...pair of women soon make a man out of Charlie. Ida, the bank manager's daughter, first seduces him. Delphine, the femme fatale waitress at the Rainbow Café, continues Charlie's education...
...this point, Charlie, Come Home is another worm-turns farce, starring Peter Sellers. But as the-tunnel lengthens from the cellar of the Rainbow to the vault of the bank, Delderfield's story takes on a certain serpentine depth. Charlie becomes disenchanted with Delphine and indifferent even to the pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow. Yet he perseveres...
...their more gifted epigones. And yet, as one can plainly see from the 140-odd paintings, drawings, prints and reliefs that make up the exhilarating Delaunay retrospective organized by French Art Historian Michel Hoog at the Orangerie in Paris this summer, the man belonged to no movement. His rainbow-hued paintings shared very little with cubism. "But they're painting with cobwebs!" was his reaction to the sober, niggling brown-and-gray facets of the first cubist pictures he saw. The tenor of Delaunay's imagination was different: coarser, more exuberant. In a crucial sense, it was more...