Word: semiabstract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miami Vice, chances are they will be before the hour is over. The plots whiz by with a minimum of exposition, the dialogue is tough and spare, the rock music almost nonstop. Characters may be shot in lyrical long shots or bathed in moody lighting or framed against semiabstract pastel backdrops. The local color of South Florida is augmented by the local colors: flamingo pink, lime green, Caribbean blue. Miami Vice has been filmed under what may be the strangest production edict in TV history: "No earth tones...
...refugee from a sculpture class than a central banker. In fact, he is. In the two years before taking up his Treasury Department post, Solomon spent full time chipping away at blocks of white oak or molding bronze in his suburban Washington studio. His style in sculpture is modern semiabstract, but in money politics his mode is classic conservative...