Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the President in fact meant for the FBI to become involved in political studies relating to his bid for re-election is not important to me. The problem is that I believe that he might have. Color me scared...
Middle-class Muscovites have been buying the traditional paintings, both for their timeless beauty and as a practical hedge against inflation. The images have become so popular that last week Russians were buying up a first edition of a samovar-table book on the subject (with 50 color plates) at $11 a copy. Literaturnaya Gazeta complained that some citizens purchased icons simply to "create an illusion of eccentricity of thinking or way of life"-in other words, to express their individuality. The images remain a sufficiently powerful symbol of religion and the old regime that many collectors feel compelled...
...Point has thus far based its claim for individuality largely on the lavish use of color and other graphic devices that seem to be borrowed from a number of magazines, including TIME, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. L'Express typography is bland by comparison. The new magazine has also developed strong feature departments, and is crisply written. Stories on the huge new skyscrapers destroying Parisian vistas and on the ecological dangers of the plastics industry broke new ground. But so far Le Point has not matched L'Express's skill at gathering hard news. With...
...must be admitted, blossomed at Yale. Those who believed last summer that Segal's star had finally been eclipsed were once again proved wrong when Segal's smiling face suddenly turned up behind an ABC microphone in Munich, Germany. Segal had traveled to Munich to give millions of Americans color commentary on the Olympic Marathon...
...Society's building, a dark vaulted monstrosity which contains, among other things, an Egyptian mummy, three old ears that have propelled Yale crews post Harvard in years past, and a color T.V., was built by Edward Herknoss, who is responsible for more collegiate stone-and-brick (including Yale's Colleges and Harvard's Houses) than any other generous fat cat in history. "He wanted it to be bigger than Skull and Bones," explained Cartmell...