Word: technicoloration
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...Paris, an American abroad named Patrick Kelly showed a rambunctious line that had the dash and Technicolor splendor of a Minnelli musical. Rifat Ozbek, whose clothes have an easy, funky swank and a kind of surreptitious sophistication, neatly encapsulated London's trend toward revisionist sartorial conservatism, where rock style has been replaced by bemused manor- house dressing. Milan's Romeo Gigli, working with finesse and the wily eye of a fine stylist, accomplished the inevitable: he took the vaunting ideas of Japan's great fashion designers, tailored them down and gave them fresh commercial pertinence. The upstart fashion...
Perhaps the technicolor brilliance of his work is so that he could see it better, because neither the coloring nor the scenes bears much resemblance to the stark cinematography in the film. If I did not know the creator's name, I might think this book was the work of some mad German Expressionist who overdosed on Van Gogh paintings and samurai movies. A really good mad German Expressionist, I should...
...movie is shot in black and white. That's a strange choice for a comedy, because black and white films seem drier and duller than technicolor. It's an even stranger choice for a first time director like Prince. In black and white there's nowhere to hide--you have to get the staging just right, the shadows to fall just so. Since there's less to confuse the eye and the mind, the viewer can really concentrate on the aesthetic qualities of the movie...
EVERYONE LOVES Pippin. It's the epitome of the young-man's-search-for-meaning musical, a close cousin of Candide, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Fantastiks, ad nauseum...
...filling a few more coffins. It didn't topple Khadafy, and it won't even put a dent in terrorism. The United States and its leaders don't have inexhaustible attention, effort, and resources. They shouldn't waste what little they have on a miniscule, tough-to-solve, technicolor problem when so many staggering, but low-profile, problems being neglected. There would be fewer graves to dig if Reagan and the press realized that it is their responsibility to focus attention on and find solutions to the most serious problems their country faces, not to make a mountain...