Word: colorations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there were a political version of the color-coded terrorism-alert system, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott would have gone to orange last week as he braced for an emergency Republican caucus. Several G.O.P. Senators were in revolt over news that House Republicans had tinkered with legislation creating a Homeland Security Department, slipping in provisions that had little to do with making the country safer but a lot to do with making special-interest groups happy. Lott figured he could get House leaders to delete the most egregious items when Congress returns in January, so he had his staff hang...
...much as anyone is. While he got lukewarm reviews for running the White House's Homeland Security office--the much ridiculed color-coded alert system was his most famous achievement--Ridge has so far lacked the authority to command a bureaucracy and control a budget. But that will change if, as expected, Bush nominates him to be the new department's first head. A former Pennsylvania Governor, he has experience running a complicated government and has won praise for his efforts to improve communication between Washington and state and local officials. And Ridge by all accounts retains Bush's confidence...
...familiar Shaw logo?the SB embossed on a scallop-shaped shield?is visible again, in ravishing color and wide-screen ShawScope. In an $84 million deal, the studio's library was purchased by Celestial Pictures, a pan-Asian company run by William Pfeiffer, an American who has lived in Asia for 20 years. Celestial is restoring Shaw films from their original negatives and plans to release several titles, with nifty add-ons like original trailers and interviews with the old stars, to Southeast Asian video outlets every few weeks. The first batch of 10 hits stores this Thursday...
Sept. 11 has most of all changed our feelings about disaster. We have a national security warning system now, a sort of mute, color-coded air raid siren, to further undermine our sense of security. And this formal ordering of fear has been supplemented by slippery rumors of attacks. My family goes to New York City for Thanksgiving every year, but this year—because my aunt knows someone who knows someone who heard that someone was planning an attack on shopping centers—we won’t be going to the post-Thanksgiving sales...
...black movies are concerned, it's easier to get people to put up money to laugh than to cry." The recipe: make rowdy ensemble films with fine black actors. Lavish time and care; be stingy with nothing but money. Hope the core audience will expand to folks of any color looking for a fun show...