Word: colorblindness
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...beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style. As he did in his adaptation of another S.E. Hinton novel (The Outsiders), Coppola has taken the protagonist's point of view as his visual strategy. There it was Technicolor romance; here it is stygian monochrome. To the Motorcycle Boy, colorblind and partly deaf from too many fights, the world is "black and white with the sound turned low," and what he sees is what we get. Dark clouds hurtle across the sky; diagonal strips of shadow fall like knife scars on every face; steam rises from the streets and rolls...
...important to him when he was young, but one way or another he did a lot of it, in children's groups and high school. He enlisted in the Navy in the summer of 1942 but flunked the physical because his brilliant blue eyes turned out to be colorblind. He ended up in the Air Corps and spent most of the next three years as a radioman in torpedo planes and in submarine patrols off Guam, Hawaii and Saipan. He saw no serious combat. He says, "I got through the whole war on two razor blades...
...helped write the winning brief in Brown vs. Board of Education, which outlawed separate-but-equal schools. But he believes the battle is far from won. In a recent article, he wrote: "For black Americans, racial equality is a tradition without a past. Perhaps one day America will be colorblind. It takes an extraordinary ignorance of actual life in America today to believe that day has come...
Although Rosovsky did not specifically call for the Faculty to recruit women and minorities aggressively, he did urge that it keep its hiring practices "colorblind and sex-neutral...
...knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience. Vulnerability, untempered rage, urchin craftiness, a rough dignity-all these moods seem to seep through him. In fact, the two Richard Pryors, kamikaze comic and sensitive actor, are overlapping parts of the same intricate talent. If the fates are colorblind, they will start engraving his name on next year's Oscar for his performance as that most exasperating, charming, contradictory of humans-Richard Pryor-in Live on the Sunset Strip. In craft as well as celebrity, Pryor is not merely hot; he is, as Variety has characterized him, "incendiary...