Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visiting the campus. He claims the police asked him who he was and what he was doing in the Yard. The police refused to comment on the subject, but it is not too outrageous to assume that he was stopped because he was Black. A person's color should not be enough to arouse suspicion...
...that pours out an infinite variety of patterns and shades. There is now a quiverful of MacPaint imitations that run on other machines, including Apple's MousePaint ($100) and Broderbund's DazzleDraw ($50) for the Apple II, Mouse Systems' PC Paint ($100) for the IBM PC, and IBM's Color Paint ($100) for the PCjr. If nothing else, programs like these make computers attractive to people who would never have dreamed of using an accounting software package or a data- base manager...
...judging committee will choose the winning pictures, which will then be submitted to the U.S. Conference of Mayors for possible publication. The deadline to submit photos, black and white or color...
...snacking at duty-free shops on distant planets and encountering such diverse creatures as a lost tribe of ballpoint pens mislaid by former owners, and a race of marketing executives who, despite 573 committee meetings, have still not discovered the wheel ("All right, Mr. Wiseguy . . . you tell us what color it should be"). To Dent's surprise, earth has somehow escaped destruction, but all the dol phins have mysteriously disappeared. The book's title, in fact, is their farewell message. He sets out to find them, making new friends, notably a lady whose feet do not quite touch the ground...
...inconceivably maddening." Worse, the new husband begins to take the true measure of his wife, who not only treats her servants as if feudalism still reigned and slavery had never been abolished but who hectors her semi-invalid son unmercifully: "Drink your porto and try and get a little color in your face for a change." She will make him a worthy Benoir, fit to assume his rightful inheritance of family leadership and at least (pounds)30 million, or kill him in the process. She rages: "You! You will drive me into the grave with those bones! It is ridiculous...