Tired of painting test areas of a wall with endless shades of puce? (fortune.com)
Harrington himself was a fascinating figure with connections to classical Hollywood, the Los Angeles underground (he photographed Kenneth Anger's «Puce Moment») and the occult leader Aleister Crowley — a connection underlined in «Night Tide» by the presence of the artist Marjorie Cameron, who believed herself to be a goddess conjured up by a Pasadena black - magic cult headed by her husband, Jack Parsons, and a pre-Scientology L. Ron Hubbard. (nytimes.com)
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