Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep them alphabetized, much less working." The regulations tightly limit the way in which banks can do business-for instance, by setting a 5% ceiling on the savings-account interest that they can pay and prohibiting them from refusing loans because of a prospective borrower's race, color or sex. Other provisions govern bankers' personal business affairs. An example: they must share details of large debts with their banks' directors...
...town of Vence, the aged sultan of the Mediterranean had his assistants cover sheets of paper with flat, brilliantly hued gouache. He then cut out shapes with scissors, and had these bright silhouettes pasted on a flat paper support. These he called his découpages-"cutouts." "Cutting into color," Matisse memorably observed in 1947, "reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor...
Although students contacted this week say they are enjoying color televisions, air conditioning and maid service, they are generally unhappy with the school's tenative promises to move them back to the regular campus some time in October after a count of on-campus vacancies...
Values Conservatives believe society can impose an official set of virtues-such as, talent should be rewarded, or the brighter people deserve more goods. That is a preposterous notion. Why should intelligence be officially superior to any other virtue-color, rhythm or kindness, for example? Obviously, people are not the same. But society should not make pre-judgments like "the intelligent life is the morally superior life...
Most days for most Americans, sport is a narrower experience. Sit in the living room. Tug the TV button. Heralded by an announcer-salesman, canned sport pops up on the color screen...