Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real joy of the evening comes from the two central performances. Peters is cuddly yet tough. She gives vocal color and emotional depth to songs ranging from a succession of one-liners about the social advantages of an English accent to an all-purpose tirade, Take That Look off Your Face, to a delicate ballad, Come Back with the Same Look in Your Eyes. D'Amboise is limited to three facial expressions: wide-eyed wonder, hangdog hurt and a nod of sudden understanding. But he bounces through the ballet routines with every bit of the puppyish appeal that Peters...
...enlightenment rather than drama, but they stand in a minority. More of the participants at these events believe that both their editors and the public want to see a confrontation. The White House works to avoid it, so few surprises emerge, though there is endless blathering later about the color of the President's skin, the timbre of his voice and what this word or that phrase meant compared with what he said someplace else. A little of that is worthy grist: e.g., Reagan's complexion. Three days later the President went to Bethesda Naval Hospital for his first checkup...
...course, there is the all-time dumbest animal nickname: the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University. They used to be called the Horned Toads, but the TCU Administration decided to add a little bit of class and upped the stakes to "Frogs." They forgot to change the school colors, however, and these would-be killer amphibians still suit up in purple, which--and I'm guessing here--isn't really the color of most horned frogs or even horned toads, at least in these here parts...
...Indians used to be Dartmouth's nickname of until they, like Harvard, decided they wanted to be a color. Only they wanted to be a big color...
Stanford used to be the Indians, too, until they turned into the Cardinals. But those crazy Californians soon decided that they didn't want to be associated with either birds or the Catholic clergy, so they too became a color by subtracting the "s." Voila, the Cardinal...