Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mental growth since 1970. Indeed Ertel and his co-workers found that the proper selection of colors could instantly raise the average IQs of a random sample of 473 children by twelve points. This was accomplished merely by testing the children in rooms that were painted light blue, yellow, yellow-green or orange-colors the children said they thought were "beautiful...
...Cutting directly into color," Matisse wrote in 1947, "reminds me of a sculptor's carving into stone." Kelly's work, both as painter and as sculptor, now seems like a reverberation of that remark: the colors he uses- red, green, yellow, blue, plus black and white - are more object than atmosphere. Their presence is dense, their shape irrevocable. This, coupled with the extreme deliberation with which he shaves his contours, makes for very responsible painting. The weight of each decision, every nick and turn of shape, comes to resemble a moral choice. And so Kelly comes...
...Laurence Hutton led a tomboy's existence. She learned woodsmanship, fishing and baby-alligator trapping from her stepfather, Jack Hall. (Hutton is the name of her real father, who died after her parents separated; Lauren she borrowed from Bacall.) A scruffy, skinny girl whom the kids called "the yellow wax bean," she earned her first pennies selling worms to fishermen. It took a matchmaking teacher to get her an escort for the senior prom. She wore blue jeans all through high school, tossing a dress over them to get around the anti-dungaree regulations. "I looked like a drag...
...Holyoke St., serves Greek food, but offers a small pizza which boasts nice cheese. The 24 also features grinders. Other pizza parlors exist farther away from the Square--check the Yellow Pages for the ones which deliver...
...other boys, stay behinds, are both imbued with the local teenage fascination with cars. John Milner, the most sympathetically and carefully drawn character, is the drag-racing champion whose fate is to stay in home town America and race his yellow jalopy until he is finally beaten. Milner, who is the archetypical tough on the outside but soft on the inside hood, is jealous of his two college bound friends, but he accepts his fate without complaint...