Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mather, merging their own style with the atrocious international-style architecture of Mather House. Recognizing that Mather, with its dark brown regulation carpeting and yellow-white walls does not easily accommodate those looking for the Laura Ashley or Crate & Barrel look, Hahn and Murphy chose to echo the color scheme of their house. In the common room, dark brown cork disks decorate a wall. Below the disks, a funky brown swivel chair and a colorful afghan blanket evoke memories of Dee-Lite...
...color palette of the room is predominantly black and eggshell white, lending a clean, modern feel. Their full-size vintage GE refrigerator in one corner of the room adds a certain old fashioned charm...
...with having to continuously exhaust your energies making peace with your self and your black self. It is a phenomenon W. E. B. DuBois has termed "the dilemma of double-consciousness." White people have the privilege of rarely having to consider themselves in the bounded terms of their skin color. I was blessed with a supportive, nurturing family who knew enough to teach me that the exhaustion, the battle fatigue, is worth it. In our family, talking about racism wasn't about being pessimistic, it was about being optimistic: as long as it is worth discussing, it's worth fighting...
...mild-mannered Winter Games. With the world-champion shredder refusing to show up, and even the Chinese athletes showing off their backflips in freestyle skiing, it could look as if the I.O.C. were a global subsidiary of MTV. (CBS even hired former MTV veejay Kennedy to do color commentary...
...bound by gag orders and rules of grand-jury secrecy, are as hard put as any other human beings to keep sensational information to themselves. Second, however, because they are playing a more complicated game in which leaks have a purpose. They are leaking secrets to advance their cases, color public opinion about their clients and put pressure on other potential witnesses to tell the truth. Not all legal cases are settled in the courts, and while it is not a pretty sight, we have seen this all before...