Word: colored
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...done as a student in Paris in 1907, were among the most painterly he would do for years: in Steeple Behind Trees, 1907, the caricaturist's facility of line is replaced by a splendid density of paint and assurance of marking. His way of cutting in rectangular dabs of color with a square-tipped brush seems to predict the shardlike planes of his mature work...
...year-old man and three friends tried to take a floodlight off the roof of a California high school as a lark; he fell through the skylight and suffered loss of the use of all four limbs, plus severe brain damage. The skylight had been painted the same color as the roof and was indistinguishable at night; the school district knew that it was dangerous because someone else had been killed falling through a similar skylight at another school six months earlier, and had scheduled the skylight for repainting. It settled out of court for $260,000, plus...
That selective amnesia requires an effort of will by the women directors, and of good will by the male bosses who employ them. "I never look at gender or hair color or clothing," avers Steven Spielberg, who chose women to direct three of the 24 episodes for his Amazing Stories. "I look at talent." But every baby mogul knows he must be a businessman first, a booster second. Says Mark Canton, president of production at Warner Bros.: "Nobody hires a woman just because she's a woman. The stakes are too high to be an idealist...
...than stunts to gain publicity for himself, and his crusade against CBS in Chicago is an example. Co-Anchorman Harry Porterfield left CBS for a more lucrative position. He was not forced out. And by claiming Jonathan Rodgers was hired as the new manager of WBBM because of his color, Jackson undercuts an achievement by a black man. Brian Johnson New York City Wallace's Farewell...
...size-8 Bally shoes made of soft leather, with scalloped, stitched edges and semi-open toes. Said Mrs. Marcos: "Somebody up there heard my prayer." The gift from Corazon Medina, a Philippines-born nurse from Michigan, was one of a number of presents, ranging from food to a color TV, that the Marcoses have received. INDONESIA Paradise Lost And Regained...