Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life has presented itself to him in the rainbow light of a moral predicament . . . Vuillard takes everything to heart." One might not infer that from Vuillard's subject matter, which conjures an intimate world of material satisfactions: the Third Republic interiors, with their mottled wallpaper and yellow light glowing thickly on well-stuffed chairs: the clutter of books, statuettes, lamps, dishes, forks; the poetry of possession. One of his portrait subjects is said to have told her maid to hide the cold cream, because "M. Vuillard never leaves anything out." She was, in a sense, wrong; Vuillard...
...concurrent brutality of nameless authority and unceasing Arctic frost define Ivan's world. Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's cameraman, has filled Siberia with beautiful winter horizons of shining white snow, deep blue sky, and soft yellow prison search lights. The harshness of the sub-zero temperatures seem more like the sting in the air of a winter carnival. The beautiful landscapes are totally inappropriate. Wrede's depiction of the guards may be more accurate, but everything is so beautiful one can hardly be bothered to notice them...
...three eating scenes successfully convey the pain fundamental to Ivan's state. But only because the image of a worn, cold body gaping over a breakfast of sticky yellow boiled grass cannot help but be effective. Courtenay is a convincing actor; but his pained body cannot sustain the entire film...
Around the end of the first quarter, a very big yellow truck with "New England Power Company" written on it pulled out in front of the bleachers. Riding on the truck were three people. One of them wore the famous electric company yellow hat, which Boston TV fans have come to know through the ads the electric companies used to run on behalf of their "Big 11 Plus" power project. These ads have since been replaced by messages from Curt Gowdy, formerly our favorite Red Sox announcer in Beantown. These generally consist of Gowdy fishing downstream from a bright, clean...
...left off in the first half. Moreover, the crowd escalated its tactics. Added to the rain of spitballs and coffee cups and programs were more lethal objects like whiskey bottles and beer cans. One whiskey bottle came flying out of the stands and smashed against the big yellow symbol of obstructed vision...