Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashions grow minier, accessories are waxing maxier. Witness the popularity of superwatches-huge, outsize timekeepers that measure 3 in. across and come with round, square and octagonal faces. They are not just plain old white faces either. Colors can be bright orange, chartreuse, yellow or red; Britain's Old England Watches decorates one watch face with a simulated Union Jack, another with swirling psychedelic petals that spell out "Flower Power...
...game between two unbeaten college football teams figures to attract considerable attention-especially when one is first in the nation on offense, the other ranks first on defense, and the stakes are 1) a conference title and 2) a possible national championship. But the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Westminster Titans will be embarrassed if more than 5,000 fans show up to watch them play Saturday. They would like to be accommodating-but Waynesburg field only has 5,000 seats...
...schools have left him a lot. This season Waynesburg boasts two first-string quarterbacks: Don Paull, a runner, and John Huntley, a passer. No one yet has found a way to stop either of them. Operating from a pro-type multiple offense, the Yellow Jackets have humiliated seven straight opponents by an average score of 60-5, running up an average of 488 yds. per game-more than any other college team in the U.S., big or small...
...York itself, a city that he feels is "like a living sculpture." To capture his first impressions he has nearly completed a "celebration to New York, a whoop-it-up scene" that shows a model consisting entirely of legs, breasts and lips emerging from an immense, sculptured yellow taxicab. He has spotted yellow as New York's special color. "It is an American yellow," he says, "the color of optimism. It's in the taxis, in the mustard, in the Kodak boxes and Con Edison construction tents, in the sanitation trucks." It is a joyful color, which reminds...
...chop of cross-hatching and rapid brush strokes give Van Gogh's watercolor foliage as much urgency as one done in a heavy oil impasto; the extravagantly translucent turquoise shadows of his barred window at the Saint-Remy asylum emphasize the manic oppressiveness of the room's yellow walls...