Word: scarlet
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...scarlet detail of Harlow's careening career, including much that was never hinted at in the gossip columns and some that is clearly imaginary, is revealed for the prurient-minded in this "intimate biography" by Irving Shulman (The Amboy Dukes). Shulman includes facts that Harlow's doctors evidently did not have-some not even her hairdresser could know for sure. He asserts that Harlow had bouts of nymphomania. He says that Paul Bern was impotent and a sadist whose beatings caused Harlow kidney injuries -which ultimately killed her because Jean's mother, a Christian Scientist, refused...
...EDUCATION, it runs not only the season's No. 2 installment of Kudos but a story about a new system that teaches children to read by keying consonant and vowel sounds to certain colors. According to this system, by the way, TIME is "spelled" magenta, light yellow and scarlet orange...
...ballroom of London's Dorchester Hotel was crammed with stuffed beavers, scarlet-coated Mounties, feathered Indians, and R.A.F. trumpeters announcing the roast beef. Moist-eyed press lords bawled Happy Birthday to You and Land of Hope and Glory. All of which seemed only proper for a party given by Roy Thomson, the Canadian-born press lord who owns more newspapers than anyone else, for Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, another Canadian-born press lord, who long since established himself as one of journalism's greats...
...crucifixion." So can his emblems, during these times of integration struggles, that proclaim YIELD BROTHER. His newest work, a diptych called A Mother Is a Mother and A Father Is a Father, returns to the figure, shows a barefoot man in hat and overcoat and a disheveled, barebreasted, scarlet-coated woman, each getting out of a Model T Ford. The figures are Indiana's parents, and the license-plate date is the year before his birth. "I have a notion that I was conceived in the back seat of a tin lizzie," Indiana explains...
GRAHAM SUTHERLAND-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. There is nothing pastoral about Sutherland's nature: a praying mantis peers from a wicked void of scarlet, a skull dangles in a tapestry of leaves and blue sky, a snake sneaks up to a formal fountain, a torso flails agains: gravity. In his own words, Britain's topflight painter makes "emotional paraphrases of reality." They have never been more horrible or beautiful. Twenty-five recent oils. Through June...