Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this store's 300-plus-page "A&F Quarterly," the magazine they try to pass off as a catalogue, there are perhaps four pages which feature people of color. One depicts the "hip hop hussy," Lil' Kim, who makes "Clinton's dirty talk look like Teletubby kiddy-babble." She's not exactly my pick of the month for black entertainers. The other three pages featuring people of color are included in a sociology section entitled "Where the Wild Things...
...thinking that their ads represent all of America. Their troupe of Aryan models even travel to England to prove it. For as we all know, "the only way to understand what it means to be an American is by spending time in another country." I suppose the models of color couldn't afford...
Iridium is rarer, costlier and even more resistant to corrosion than platinum, and its name comes from iris, the rainbow, from the lovely play of color in iridium salts. I would love to carry an iridium credit card. --Dr. Oliver Sacks, author...
Restoring an interior that in its original condition had never been documented in color photography proved to be nearly an act of archaeology. Hardy tested armfuls of swatches for the mammoth curtain, assessed carpet samples from several continents, appraised scores of variations on the foil wallpaper used in the hall's public areas. Misguided renovations in years past didn't help. The turbid purple-and-brown pattern on the auditorium carpet got that way because the first replacement had been matched to the worn, filthy colors of the original. Hardy's research revealed that in 1932, before 100 million shoes...
...Yesterday, while walking down Mount Auburn in my orange vest, a friend of mine eagerly pointed out that I was being trendy by wearing the "Official Color of the Millennium." Yes, my friends, orange is the official color of Y2K. And no one knows why. Surely, the spokesperson for orange didn't bribe the Official Millennial Committee (though I have a feeling that this committee is helmed by the Gap CEO who made orange trendy in the first place). If anyone knows how orange was chosen as the most important color of 1000 years, please drop me a line...