Word: colorfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COUPLES, by John Updike. Wife swapping is the game, described in living off-color, but soul saving is the real stake in this rich, mazelike and subtly rewarding novel by the crown prince of American letters...
...significance and restore its masterworks. In many cases, furniture and stained-glass are long gone; World War II and the postwar building boom have leveled many buildings. Yet those art-nouveau monuments that remain are now recognized as well worth the trouble and expense of renovation (see color pages...
...faring far better under the onslaught. This year 1,300,000 U.S. tourists will journey south of the border to savor the strangeness and delights of a New World country that counts history in millenniums, boasts attractions as varied as jet-set seaside resorts and ancient Indian ruins (see color pages). What's more, with the Olympics scheduled to open in Mexico City on Oct. 12, this will be a billion-' dollar year for Mexican tourism-the biggest ever. Mexicans are going all out to make a stay in their country one long fiesta and to turn...
...times the sea was steely purple, stained; at others, under a close warm rain sky, the no-color of dirty wash; choppy rows hurried in from the horizon to be delivered and disposed of in the lick and slide at the shore. Piet stopped to pick up angel wings, razor clam shells, sand dollars with their infallibly etched star and their considerate airhole for an inhabiting creature Piet could not picture...
...always known: race makes a difference. "There are a lot of problems white people have with black people," argues Bernard Bruce, a Roxbury resident and co-director of the Ed School's Project Pathways, one of the exceptional community successes. "One thing Harvard needs is someone who has some color...