Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Color blindness almost always results from poor diet...
Power scored a hit as a dashing Caribbean pirate in "The Black Swan," so he has again been thrust into the locale of his former triumph, this time as a member of the Cortez expedition. But Tyrone has been shortchanged; Twentieth Century Fox, though providing violent color contrasts, strident blaring music, and earthy young Jean Peters, has neglected to furnish a blood and thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power...
...dialogue, and battles than brainfood. If spectacles can be said to have a purpose, it is to give pure entertainment. The technicolor plot is generally too flimsy to carry on unless buoyed up by blood and swordplay. Until some cinemogul realizes that an intelligent picture can be filmed in color, this is the way it will always be: that the number of corpses is directly proportional to the worth of the picture...
...section which specifies that states must provide their own education up to capacity if they are to remain eligible for federal aid. "This requires a substantial effort on the part of each state, and a reasonable concern for the education of all its children, regardless of race or color...
...republic, and his paintings look like dream-glimpses of such a republic-familiar, but never unpleasantly so. He crowded his painted world with plump ladies and children, always in the best of spirits and often partly undressed. And over them he sometimes succeeded in weaving a deep sparkle of color which few U.S. contemporaries could touch...