Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which plunged from a record 9.4 million units in 1978 to 3.5 million last year as more and more shutterbugs turned to superior 35-mm cameras. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company says that with the advanced chemistry of Spectra film, the new camera will produce sharper pictures with truer color than did previous models...
...restorative meal. What she was not ready for was the dazzling variety of Cajun and Southern specialties, impeccably garnished and laid out cafeteria-style in a cheerful yellow-and-spring-green dining room. That bright lime green is the Keydril trademark. The company rigs are painted in that color to give them a clean look from shore and thus not offend environmentalists. Lime green is also the shade for uniforms that all personnel must wear after coming off the drilling floor. No one in work clothes is permitted in the living quarters; that is not a standard drilling-rig custom...
...favorite film was Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), a black-and-white musical biography of George M. Cohan that seemed to pop into color whenever Cagney laced on his tap shoes. "Once a song-and-dance man, always a song-and- dance man," said Cagney, who won his only Academy Award for the role. "Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell...
...contribution of $7 million, Levi Strauss gets to create the official outfit of the class of '86. Gone are black gowns and mortarboards. In their place: for the guys, boot-cut denims, snap-button Western shirts with solid-color yokes and Stetson hats; for the gals, knee-length gingham skirts, Lady Fryes and matching blouses and bandannas. Members of the Harvard Corporation and other honored guests on the dais wear full-length cowhide chaps...
...student body. Here at Harvard, we have a group of men with socially elitist attitudes forced to compete on a strictly meritocratic basis for grades and extra-curricular activities. Were such individuals denied a socially-accepted opportunity to exclude their fellow students on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, income, and family background, this proclivity would find expression in more mischievious ways...