Word: russet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People in the cosmetics business claim, however, that the new hues have little to do with those of the '40s or '50s. The new colors, they maintain, are so sophisticated that it is now possible to have a mulled russet eye shadow, a Dubonnet-toned rouge and a nail polish that falls somewhere between brown and mauve. Red lipstick in the '40s tended to be blue-red and caky in consistency; the '70s red is clear and guaranteed not to cake. So wide is the range of colors she has before her, a woman...
Wendy Walker's expressive self-portrait, dramatic in its russet, green and purple facial tones, is a forceful and moving expression. David Fitcher's silkscreen of a contorted American flag lying amid a claret and orange landscape ably controls, through an appreciation of the organizing effect of color, both its political and aesthetic context...
...offspring of Principato's union with Cynthia have "sallow skins and strange russet-colored hair" and answer to the jig-prompting names of Terrance, Sean. Noreen. Aloysius and Kathleen. To their Italian fathers dismay, they avoid the sun like moles, playing sourly in the shade or roaming dark hallways. Principato blunders through eleven years among this dreadful crew until his father, dying of cancer, announces that he will not mend his 35-year rift with Holy Mother Church and, far more shocking, intends to be cremated. The scandalized Corrigans mount a frenzied campaign to scoop old Principato into...
...Wickler included Hymenocera elegans, or the painted shrimp. Almost in passing, he mentioned that the shrimp feeds on starfish, including the crown-of-thorns. To the Talbots, who have been looking for ways to cope with the sudden and mysterious proliferation of the crown-of-thorns, the beautifully colored russet-and-white shrimp seemed a promising answer...