Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of Soviet power is no longer in the Kremlin but a half mile away in the three-story, pastel green and yellow Moscow building that houses the secreariat of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. There, behind a door bearing only the brass nameplate "Comrade Khrushchev, N.S.," the First Secretary has been tidying up the political battlefield following his sensational breakthrough...
...with a fruit salad of stars, medals and epaulets (famed Costumer Karinska, who traditionally arrives, cavalrylike, just as Balanchine is about to burn, outdid herself by producing the outfits several hours before curtain time). All the dazzle did not glare from the costumes: Ballerina Diana Adams, in a blue, yellow and red drum majorette's rig, led a regiment of girls in high, prancing kicks to the tune of Rifle Regiment; Ringmaster Balanchine had 13 men of the ballet corps performing difficult, double in-the-air turns to Arranger Hershy Kay's combination of Sousa...
...settings were 19th century and romantic, the tutus were pink and yellow, the dancing poised and beautiful. But Balanchine wove tensions not usually found in such period pastels. Massing dancers in great, wheeling formations, he demanded uncanny accuracy from his corps, succeeded in presenting the audience with hard, precise form through the swaths of tulle...
...until two years after he first set pencil to paper did Ingres, then 72, interrupt the honeymoon of his second marriage to complete the painting. Every line of the light blue silk dress, each tuck in the dark blue chair covering, every fold of the yellow stole is lovingly recorded. The play of light in the ruffles and ribbons, the gleam of the rope of huge pearls at the wrist, and the light reflections on the pendant brooch are skillfully worked through. But Ingres' most consummate draftsmanship went into modeling the head, with its smoothly coiffured hair, its serene...
...Among the other newcomers in Plastic: the 26-ft. Luders-16, day sailer and racer; the 15-ft. Feather Craft runabout; and the 14-ft. Owens Speedship runabout. The new construction not only permitted builders to cut costs,*but also set them off on a color spree of red, yellow and blue...