Word: colored
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...visitors, Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, made detailed notes about the Soviet leader that make him sound remarkably like Washington's own Great Communicator. Gorbachev's greeting to his visitors, noted Conte, was almost fulsome. He had been well briefed by aides, and spoke through an interpreter from color-coded typed notes. He made his points firmly, often with emotion and at times with humor and a trace of sardonic wit; Conte recorded that he even hit the table with his fist for emphasis. One of the charmed visitors called him quite an actor. The meeting...
...were the lighting cues simply disconnected with the action but they sometimes seemed even downright manic. Though the finale to act one (Billy’s “Soliloquy”) ended with a nice silhouette against a black background, it took a trippy migration through the entire color wheel to get there. Also through much of the first sequence in town, everyone to the right of the stage was inexplicably caught in a harsh electric pink light very evocative of a striptease...
...memoir of growing up in Chicago, Bellow described listening to one of Roosevelt's fireside chats on a summer evening at the height of the Depression: "Just as memorable to me," he wrote, "was to learn how long clover flowers could hold their color in the dusk." Politics was for politicians. Bellow's job was to observe the world around him and make us see its beauty...
...their U.S. counterparts. Friedman sees this transition as the century's epic story line, one that may break the red-blue divide of U.S. politics while lifting millions of young Chinese and Indians into the middle class. In the flat world, he gushes, "you are going to see every color of the human rainbow take part...
...film makes excellent use of splashes of color to break up the black-and-white, and little things like a woman’s blonde hair, a hooker’s green or blue eyes, and Dwight’s bright red sneakers give eye-catching excitement to each frame. The blood is particularly colorful, and appears in red, chocolate-syrupy black, and even tempera-paint white...