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...HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BEING FASTIDIOUS. WHAT'S THE MOST RIDICULOUS DETAIL YOU'VE OBSESSED OVER? There are definitely some things I did at Pastis that I now look back on and shudder. For instance, staining the ceiling again and again until it had the exact mustard color it might have had if people had been smoking in the place for 50 years. That now seems ridiculous. And it looks a bit theatrical, which I can't bear. The deliberately faded sign outside Pastis irritates me to no end. I could...
...rude to José Carlos' closest comrades: his Afro-Cuban bandmate, Fernando (Chimi Monterrey), and the band's sexy, dusky lead dancer, Isabel (Chela Castro), who clearly has a crush on the oblivious José Carlos. "You lower yourself dancing with that mulatta," Ana Luisa sneers, to which her color-blind beau replies, "It was God's decision that she's of mixed race." Ana Luisa also thinks that his performing in blackface is demeaning, but he shrugs that off with a laugh: "You're very lucky: You're being courted by two men. A white...
...concern is that Travis may be over-interpreting our data,” he said. “In our paper, we made it clear that the apparent variations with color that we tabulated could be due to the telescope and instrument, and thus might not be due to molecules in the planetary atmosphere...
Knutson agreed, saying that Barman’s analysis appears to account for some, but not all, of the color-dependent features in the data that she and Charbonneau collected from the Hubble Space Telescope last year...
...every community, raising memories of beauty bias (against darker skin and kinkier hair) that dates back to slavery. Tracy Riley, 37, of Des Moines, Iowa, who is of mixed race, said the incident was among her four kids' first exposures to overt racism. "Our kids don't see color the way we do," she said. "They don't see it as much. 'You're my friend or not,' but it's not about race...