Word: trix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finest travel writers. His scenes of Ellelloū and his four wives again demonstrate that he is the master of reproducing the cold exchanges and icy silences of domestic warfare. His control of bizarre episodes-a U.S. AID adviser immolated atop a shipment of Kix Trix Chex Pops, Russian missile experts rollicking like Kievstone Kops, a severed head turned into a Disneyesque talking relic-steers him clear of gratuitous black humor...
...rich ecclesiastical red-are neatly tuned by Dine's drawing, which gives exactly the right definition to the edge of a sleeve, the correct visual weight to the shadow in a fold. It is beaux-arts drawing applied with a kind of gentle irony to the ma trix of abstract-expressionist style. Dine's older paintings of robes in the '60s were done with acrylic and house paint; they had the "industrial" look common to a lot of Pop art - clean, flat, unresonant. But, says he, "the robes glow now," thanks to the traditional oil paint...
After 20 minutes of cutting and brightening the speech, Kissinger opened his briefcase and took out three folders. When Kissinger came to a document marked TOP SECRET SENSITIVE EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY CONTAINS CODEWORD, Rossi clicked away at 1/30 sec., f/5.6 with TriX rated 1200 ASA in his 35-mm. Canon equipped with 600-mm. lens. What the camera recorded was a report on diplomatic relations between Paris and Hanoi based on information from "an established CIA source with excellent access" in the French Foreign Ministry. According to the CIA source, the French felt "deceived by Hanoi's assurances that...
...Photographs like that of Mount Williamson, with its tumbled granitic boulders and slanting cathedral illumination in the sky-as if God had accepted Adams as his art director-have been instrumental in fixing the idea of "wilderness" for two generations of Americans. Probably half the millions of frames of TriX and Polaroid that tourists expose in Yosemite each season are homages, conscious or not, to Adams-sentiment imitating art in the presence of nature. Just as the traveling painters of the past century like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran imposed a particular vision of the West on our ancestors, Adams...
...there still is hope if some of you have some Trix up your sleeve. The CRIMSON Spring Competition begins next week...