Word: technicolorful
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This side of Technicolor, no one wages war on the range quite like Harold L. Oppenheimer, 47, head of the U.S.'s biggest cattle management firm. By his definition, "ranching is the nearest thing in business to a military operation. You deal with large amounts of terrain, large-scale logistics. On the battlefield as in a roundup, success depends on timing, men, and movement...
...Cordobés' story, and they are frequently informative about the brutal, corrupt realities beneath bullfighting's cloak of romanticism. But the problem with their cinematic technique is that while it requires only a grainy black-and-white script, they give it a glossy, Technicolor treatment. Every irony is underlined, every climax hammered home, every scene overstuffed with authentic touches from their well-stocked notebooks. The result, paradoxically, is that their finished product is rarely as vivid and compelling as their raw material must have been...
...impeccably served alfresco lunches between rehearsals. Sprightly, blonde Barbara Ferris is the lissome young newspaper reporter sent to interview the great conductor. From then on, it seems, neither of them gets any work done, but they have a lot of fun twirling about in the vortex of a Technicolor London-little restaurants, antique shops, bed, concert halls...
...Technicolor Dreams. While his aides spin Technicolor dreams, it sometimes seems as if a great eclipse is advancing on Washington. The President and the White House are slowly being shadowed. Johnson falls with increasing regularity from the front pages of the papers-although he can still agitate the photographers when an occasion like his grandson's first birthday comes up. He is forgotten in cocktail conversation that dwells on new candidates. His presence does not pervade the Government. Events, of course, could resurrect him. Crisis could make him the man of the moment. But as soon as the tense...
...that explains why Ashe took the court recently for exhibition matches in Manhattan's Vanderbilt Tennis and Athletic Club wearing snazzy powder-blue shorts and shirt. All the other players were showing colors too-either "Match Blue," like Ashe, or "Trophy Yellow." What's more, the new Technicolor togs, manufactured by Catalina Martin, bore the endorsement: "Selected by the U.S.L.T.A. for the U.S. Davis Cup Team...