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...married dilettante who befriended Theda Bara, Aleister Crowley and Isadora Duncan. While working for his mother's cosmetics firm, Preston invented a kissproof lipstick. His life was as eccentric as his films. How does Donald Spoto make it read like forced labor? Some biographies, the good ones, offer a vivid picture of the artist's life. Others, like Spoto's, remind you of the biographer's trudge through library morgues and dead-end interviews. Sturges' film world was so open to American experience that even a bartender, asked for a special concoction, could exclaim, "Sir, you rouse the artist...
...piece, titled "Collaborative Yellow," in which each VES student of one class contributed a strip, is an exercise in varying items for texture. Among the everyday elements featured are sponges, licorice, and wash clothes, covered in bright yellow paint. The vivid color and interplay of textures draw the veiwer in to examine what beneath the paint creates the unusual texture. The painting is fun to look...
...Connor is married now (her husband is her drummer, John Reynolds) and has a 2 1/2-year-old son named Jake. But what makes her songs so startling and vivid is their perpetual tension between lyricism and a stormy, still close past that keeps bearing down hard. "To write harshly," she says, "that's my ambition." And to relive everything, rework it and maybe, finally, to resolve it. That's her likely destiny. And the listener's reward...
...illustrations for books that the firm produced as promotional gifts. (Folon's association with the company continues to this day.) During those early years, Folon, inspired by intrusive street signs, drew clusters of skyscrapers entangled in suffocating thickets of directional arrows. In the current show Anaconda, 1968, offers a vivid treatment of this motif. Folon admits that these frighteningly amusing glimpses of modern urbanism were "my revenge on what I had been taught in architecture school...
...everyone that he got there first by starting his presentation with a reprise of his famous "rich peasant" couture collection of the mid-'70s. Ungaro's sumptuous clothes also paid homage to that look. The simplest pseudo peasant was Kenzo, who, with his customary lack of pretension, threw together vivid knit patterns and topped them off with enormous babushkas...