Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting, to be sure, is less than successful. Carol has come for purely selfish reasons: "I want to know about my grade. Is that bad?" John continues speaking for a different selfish reason: to hear himself talk. But is that all he really wants? His off-color language and an attempted pat on the shoulder have convinced Carol by Act Two that she was the victim of sexual manipulation. John, to her mind, has demanded her submission to his specious, inflated academic authority...
...design by Helen Shaw '98 and the soundtrack coordination of Amar Hamoudi '95 also deserve commendation. The (literaly) luminous backdrop allows for a series of visually rich, stunning scenes, taking advantage of the small space to create a flow of constantly changing motion and color. The stage frequently transforms into tableaux which are tiny gems of visual creativity: The visual imagination of the director seems to have been working overtime, and the results often veer brilliantly into Magritte country...
...child to worry about; indeed, he has never especially cared for children. Lately, however, he has begun to feel different. With a little help from the cloning lab, he now has the opportunity to have a son who would bear not just his name and his nose and the color of his hair but every scrap of genetic coding that makes him what he is. Now that appeals to the local industrialist. In fact, if this first boy works out, he might even make a few more...
...criminal trial openly expressed doubts about his innocence. Nevertheless they applauded the first decision with some misgivings. Why then are these people bemoaning the second verdict? The answer is that for blacks and whites alike, the issue was never Simpson's guilt or liability; it was his color. EDWARD ELLIS JR. Ionia, Michigan...
DIED. ROBERT SARNOFF, 78, second-generation chief of RCA; in New York City. In the 1950s and '60s, Sarnoff preened the company's NBC subsidiary into the peacock network, introducing color and expanding news. When the conglomerate he built suffered from sprawl, G.E. snatched...