Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently, different nationalities lived in the same neighborhoods and walked together. As for their color, I had never seen a people of such varying shades of skin color and hair texture. The darker Cubans did not seem to suffer from racial discriminatory acts as they intermigled with their mulatto and lighter-skinned countrymen. We waved at them through the bus windows as some waved back. When we had been in Mexico City, motorists honked their horns impatiently, swore, cursed at pedestrians, and even called us names...
...Army, he said he had hijacked a plane and was seeking sanctuary in Cuba. So far he had been a little disappointed in his stay because there were no "black groups." We asked him what he meant. In Cuba, he replied, everyone--black, mulatto and white--intermingled, regardless of color. Furthermore, he continued, the Cubans wanted him to do physical labor and work like everyone else in a socialist society. One of our delegates commented that his disappointment with a Communist country came from his trying to perceive this new society from the values of the United States--a capitalist...
Creamer, senior editor of Sports Illustrated, lets his concise magazine style explode over 400 pages of detailed but swift writing. He records Ruth's on-the-field endeavors with precision and color. He carefully avoids studding his sentences with cliched codewords like four-ply and three bagger. In an uncharacteristic feat of sportswriting, he makes heavy use of the English language...
...least since Eliot's "unreal city" in The Wasteland, all that is left to do is pick it apart into ashes and let them scatter about in modernist prose, hoping that something new and different will happen. In Box Man every conceivable "new" technique is used--from describing the color of ink used in the marginalia, printed verbatim, to a fight between the box man and his fictitious alter-ego about who is the real narrator of the story...
...glass igloos and a Ko-Z Cat Cottage with pile carpeting, a sun deck, catnip bar and built-in mouse hole. For animals left behind by vacationing owners, pet motels and inns vie to offer such features as wall-to-wall AstroTurf, brass beds, Snoopy linen, piped-in music, color TV, bathrooms, beauty parlors, air conditioning, thrice-daily cookie breaks, and meals cooked to clients' specifications (including kosher diets). If the pet travels with his owners, there are guides listing only hotels and motels that welcome...