They had painted him for her in poster colors — purple for vice, black for his soul, red for Hell flames: a gambler, smoker, drinker, deserter, screwer of women, and atheist.
To compensate for the production's physical modesty Mr. Wise urged grand performances — "bold, poster-color acting," as Ms. Phillips put it.
Instead of election posters coloring the streets, plainclothes police officers make sure there are no spontaneous gatherings.
She used leftover latex house paint in vintage circus-poster colors like blood red, ochre, and bird's-egg blue-green, and, when she wasn't painting straight on the wall, worked on found wood.
"Why are they not trying to create a proper atmosphere?" Now, instead of election posters coloring the streets, plainclothes police officers hang around at major crossings, making sure there are no spontaneous gatherings.
(For information: www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/.) A $15 fee includes instructions, a handbook about birds and bird feeding, a poster with color illustrations of common feeder birds, a calendar, data forms and return envelopes.
A highlight of the show, assembled largely from private collections, is a rare, six-foot-tall 1864 campaign poster with color portraits of Lincoln, the vice-presidential candidate Andrew Johnson and other Republican candidates.
An online feature lets children print out their own cards and posters to color.
