Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief point of information in connection with Melanie Williams review of Spike Lee's School Daze (March 9th): Ms. Williams' observation that Blacks have recently begun to change their eye color to "blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty" unwittingly plays into one of the subtlest games of misinformation that white racism has played on Blacks...
Many people are unaware of the fact that among a once-nomadic group of endangered East Africans called the lk (described in The Mountain People by anthropologist Colin Turnbull). dark black skin and deep-blue eyes are commonplace, as reference to color photographs in an early 1970's Smithsonian magazine will readily confirm...
Picture this: an amateur shutterbug walks into a camera shop with a 35-mm color negative and walks out with a glossy print, cropped to his liking, less than five minutes later. That vision will become reality this summer, when Kodak's Create-A-Print 35-mm Enlargement Center, a do-it-yourself printmaker, appears in U.S. photo shops...
Kodak last week showed off its invention, which accepts negatives much the way automated tellers digest bank cards. While viewing the film's positive image on a 13-in. color monitor, consumers can crop the photo, zoom in or out and adjust its angle. The quick prints, in 5 by 7, 8 by 10 or 11 by 14 size, are expected to be slightly more expensive than those produced from negatives left at the photo shop...
...this mentality gains further acceptance, who knows how far the College administration will want to fiddle with student choices about who they want to live with. Maybe rooming groups will be next--physics concentrators, singers, and people who like the color blue next may be asked to live apart--all in the name of diversity...