Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been trained to reach food by climbing a rope. The injections disoriented the rats and impaired their climbing ability. A similar effect on a rat's shinnying skills is also caused by derivates of 3,4, dimethoxyphenethylamine (DMPEA), more simply known as "the pink spot" because of its color in paper chromatography tests designed to detect it. DMPEA has been found in the urine of several thousand severely ill schizophrenics. It was isolated six years ago by Psychiatrist Arnold Friedhoff and Biochemist Elnora Van Winkle of the New York University School of Medicine, and studied further in additional tests...
...heroine has just lost her husband, a helicopter pilot, in Viet Nam. To raise her six-year-old son, Julia wants to resume her nursing career. She phones a physician and is immediately offered an interview. But she wavers. "Oh," she asks, "did they tell you I'm colored?" "Mm," he replies, "what color are you?" "Wh-hy, I'm Negro." "Oh," says the doctor. "Have you always been a Negro, or are you just trying to be fashionable...
...dozen of these early paintings recently gathered together for an exhibit by Manhattan Dealer Klaus Perls showed the public what had rarely been seen by any but a few diligent art historians: Vlaminck's early work, taut with a passionate precision, is the finest of his career (see color...
...fuse for the 1905 Fauvist explosion, so in 1907 another snuffed it out. In that year, painters trooped in to view the Cezanne memorial retrospective. Before long, palettes all over Montmartre darkened as artists imitated Cezanne's can vases, which emphasized structure at the expense of color. The result was cubism, which is based in part on Cezanne's injunction: "Nature must be treated through the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." Vlaminck tried his hand at cubism, but with no great success. After four years in the French army, he emerged to develop his later moody, tempestuous vision...
...rise a mere 12.7% over the same period last year. Not even Xerox expects to keep duplicating such successes forever. More than a dozen competitors have come into the copying field. Among them is the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, which is now testing a machine that can make color copies in one minute...