Word: colorism
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...beekeeper, and when her colony fails, she pours a bucket of bees over Ned; they return to life in a shower of sparks), Daisies has a timeless, picture-book look. It could be set today, in the '30s, in the '70s or in any other decade fond of saturated color. Like Chuck herself, it's a perfect candidate for a second chance: as glowing and lovable as the day we first met it. You'd never believe it used to be dead...
...asked Sharan if I could touch her pants, and she readily agreed. I asked her what they were made of. "They didn't tell me," she said, before quickly covering. "It's beautiful. And a beautiful color." Sharan also didn't know the name of the model she was sharing the couch with. I sat down on the couch between Sharan and the model whose name we both didn't know and smiled for a photo. I'm pretty sure not even Veronica Webb would say that...
...Pasquale’s future career prospects to why he chose to mention that his ex-girlfriend thought his “splooge tasted like unripe bananas” are dwarfed by the sheer audacity of the act itself. The immense self-love poured into a full-color magazine essentially produced to display the mind and body of its creator is truly astounding. Diamond magazine is Harvard’s answer to Alexy Vayner, the Yale graduate who became a YouTube sensation after his preposterously self-promoting job application video “Impossible Is Nothing” made...
...This made it the durable dishware of choice on some U.S. Navy ships during World War II. After the war, designer Russel Wright and the St. Louis-based company Branchell, among others, developed molded dinnerware out of melamine, known as Melmac, designing sets under names like "Flair," "Fortiflex" and "Color-Flyte." Throughout the 1950s, as Americans started buying processed foods and washing machines, clamoring for anything that conveyed "modern," colorful melamine bowls and plates became mainstays in kitchens across the country. Unfortunately, Melmac tableware was prone to scratches and stains and so the dishes fell out of favor...
...even in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio the figure was a troubling 1 in 10. It's a tribute to America's racial progress that a biracial man born before Jim Crow died could come this close to the presidency, but if you believe that contemporary America is color-blind, you probably also believe the Georgia Congressman who recently called Obama "uppity," then claimed he had no idea it was a traditional Southern slur for blacks who didn't know their place. ("Uppity" often modified the slur everyone knows is a slur.) Blacks are still known as "minorities" because this...