Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of these students, their musical careers were initiated at an age where other children were just striving to color within the lines...
...Yard. You're gazing out of your 11 o'clock class, it's sunny, and you notice that the Yard has been transformed from its hopeful-looking greenishness into turquoise. Turquoise. Azure. Teal. One might expect--and even accept--a nice hunter green, even kelly green, but the color of the Yard is now currently bordering on blue. The administration has not gone crazy, of course. Commencement is coming up in June, and the Yard would be even uglier than it is now if thousands of students, alumni and parents trampled the Yard into a muddy pulp. The overall artistic...
...early evening. A Boston native, he has been involved in radio for ten years. Skip's good looks and charm light up the studio as he eagerly talks about plans tonight for his 25th birthday party. Behind him are walls lined with thousands of CDs and tapes categorized by color according to release date. Their labels conveniently list how many seconds there are before the song starts. This serves to tell the DJ how long he or she needs to talk before the music begins...
...alone on a bare floor, wearing nothing but a loincloth and a pair of cheap spectacles, studying the clutch of handwritten notes in his hand. The black-and-white photograph takes up a full page in the newspaper. In the top left-hand corner of the page, in full color, is a small rainbow-striped apple. Below this, there's a slangily American injunction to "Think Different." Such is the present-day power of international Big Business. Even the greatest of the dead may summarily be drafted into its image ad campaigns. Once, a half-century ago, this bony...
...recent years, however, King's most quoted line--"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"--has been put to uses he would never have endorsed. It has become the slogan for opponents of affirmative action like California's Ward Connerly, who insist, incredibly, that had King lived he would have been marching alongside them. Connerly even chose King's birthday last year to announce the creation of his nationwide crusade against "racial...