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Word: colorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Color the scene A Clockwork Orange. On the night of the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton heavyweight fight last week, the action outside Yankee Stadium was worthy of Stanley Kubrick's chiller: gangs of youths rampaged, snatching tickets from fans, breaking into parked cars, seizing a city bus, attempting unsuccessfully to get into the stadium. An attractive woman was shoved face-first into a concrete wall outside the ballpark, and while she bleated in terror, three patrolmen watched unmoving. Pickpockets bumped profitably through the crowd lifting wallets, and young thugs from the wasteland of the South Bronx grabbed women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Law and Disorder | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...whites," says Michael Daffy, head of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of Rhodesia. "Given a chance to effect this change without emotion, we may all come out all right. More than South Africa, we have the makings of a black middle class here. Profits in Rhodesia are color blind, and blacks have just as much a stake in stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: THE WHITES:'TIRED OF RUNNING' | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...clothes on. That turns out to be most of the time. True, the opening scene has them emerging frontally naked from behind shiny, plastic drapes, but within seconds their bare bodies become moving screens for a slide show projecting brilliant patterns of Op art, leopard skins and whirls of color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Back on the Bawds | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...Color me Catholic. I am for better birth control methods that are readily available to any who want them, help with adoption procedures and teaching respect for all life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 4, 1976 | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

Mick Jogger, take note. That gun-steel gaze and pistoleer's pose belong to your wife Bianco. But relax-she's not thinking about your nights on the town during the Rolling Stones' tours. She's working in Flesh Color, a movie by Belgian Director Francois Weyergans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 4, 1976 | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

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