Word: color
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Godard has always been a canny guerrilla. He knows that film is an expensive art, that someone must subsidize his midnight raids on the prevailing culture. So he subverts the typical narrative by using all the handsome old tools. Contempt has movie stars, guns, car crashes, wide screen, beautiful color, the cliffs of Capri, the most rapturous music (by Georges Delerue, his violins sawing and soaring like Philip Glass in ecstasy). And, always, pretty women. A Ziegfeld of the Left Bank, Godard reinvented Jean Seberg and discovered Anna Karina, Juliet Berto, Maruschka Detmers, Myriem Roussel, Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy--glories...
...color scheme--which includes pale green, pale blue, taupe and ivory--was selected from original paint chips from the houses in consultation with experts...
Well, finally--the president we deserve, a morally square peg in the Oval Office, a man whose primary emotional color is true blue. James Marshall is the kind of guy who stands up boldly to international thuggery as well as to temporizers on his own staff. He has a nice sense of humor, a good marriage and a daughter who mirrors his virtues. He is also, as it turns out, physically brave and uncannily resourceful under life-threatening pressure. And he looks a lot like the reliably doughty Harrison Ford...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Instituted in 1986, the 100-to-1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentencing was meant to target crime, not color. But with crack-related violence on the wane, President Clinton agreed Tuesday to ease off on a policy many activists call racist because it imposes far heavier penalties on crack users, who are more likely to be black. Under the plan put forth by Attorney General Janet Reno and drug czar Barry McCaffrey, the disparity will be reduced to 10-to-1: five years would be the mandatory sentence for selling 25 grams of crack...
...Racism is bred in homes where children are deprived of the motivation that helps them to achieve. It is not racism that is a deterrent to success, but ignorance and personal vices. Minorities need only equal opportunity, education, pay and fair treatment. Like Connerly, I see myself as a color-blind American. Minorities will never be considered equal until they see themselves that way--as humans and Americans, not as minorities. CHRISTINE JONES Barcelona, Venezuela...