Word: vermilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income did not keep pace with Manhattan's rising real-estate values. Last week Rockefeller Center's Chairman Laurance Rockefeller pronounced a death sentence on the relatively young building. When NBC's lease expires next May, workmen will tear down the Center's vermilion doors, mahogany walls, its six-ton, 400-bulb chandelier, once the world's biggest. On the theater's site will rise a new $11 million, 19-story office building that will connect with the U.S. Rubber Co. building and bear the same name...
...successful in his campaign against black coffins, especially for artists, despite a telling argument: "Why should we who owe our very bread to color go to our graves in black boxes?" In his will. Colorist Quinquela has ordered that his own coffin be soft pink inside, with blue top, vermilion ends and green sides...
...ultra-liberal Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam has been engaged for months in a bitter, long-distance feud with the House Un-American Activities Committee.Chairman Harold H. Velde infuriated him by talking about searching for Communists in the ranks of U.S. churchmen. The bishop made some pointed remarks about "vermilion vigilantes"-a term he said he invented to describe those who created as much national distrust as Reds themselves, but had so much "yellow in their makeup" that another color was needed to describe them. In a speech on the floor of the House, California's Congressman Donald...
...16th century, the professor found that St. Bartholomew's sleeve, before a dark, bilious green, was indeed a dark azure blue. That was just the beginning. On Judas' blue tunic, ancient Arabic lettering appeared in gold; Christ's robe changed from a dirty lime color to vermilion, his mantle became bluer, its folds draped more gracefully. The dingy tablecloth lost its tattletale grey, and in the background, the blue waters of a cool lake took shape...
...tepees. Their figures were frightening and funny by turns-glowering, batlike adults with burning eyes, or sad, dough-faced creatures with bird-thin legs and toothless smiles. The colors were as exuberant as the designs: heads in chartreuse and grey, faces that were half yellow, half blue, with startling vermilion circles under the eyes. One of the favorites was a group project: a huge mural of Charlestown with all the details, including a nest of pigeon eggs perched on a church ledge...