Word: colorations
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...anachronistic performance on modern piano and clarinet. Fans extoll the virtues of hearing the compositions of such Baroque uber-studs as they would have been heard once upon a time. For this, the unaccustomed ear might have been a little challenged upon hearing the more delicate and subdued tonal color of Wispelwey's early eighteenth-century cello and violincello piccolo (small cello...
...proposition is adapted from the 1964 Civil Rights Act. None of the advocates of the proposition who appears regularly before the public is a white male. Its advertising slogan is "Bring us together." The idea the pro-proposition forces are selling is that affirmative action has introduced obsessive color consciousness into what otherwise would be a color-blind society, and thus hurts black people as much as white...
Could this finally be the Dole campaign's spark? His aides hoped so. Within two days they had rushed onto TV a spot featuring tape of the actual 1992 MTV show, though with the original color converted to a blurry black and white that made Clinton look as if he were being viewed through drug-glazed eyes. Earlier ads had prepared the way by calling rising teenage drug use a "moral crisis" that Clinton has failed to fight effectively. This one suggests a sinister theory: the President views drugs as a laughing matter...
Everyone walking around me was wearing a slight variation on the same color scheme. You've seen it, the Gap line: inoffensive, uninspiring and uninspired, with an occasional light blue thrown in for creative good measure. Almost all were wearing jeans and most everyone had something tied around his or her waist. Although these people didn't look like they'd stepped off the pages of a J. Crew catalogue, it appeared as though they tried very hard to make it seem like they...
Once I actually made it down to the MAC Quad, however, I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by the the Institute of Politics' day-long Harvard Youth for Political Empowerment carnival-cum-rally. It was something very rare at Harvard--a well-organized, thoughtfully-planned, color-coordinated event that students actually attended. In droves...