Word: colorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...third grade, I was reading these books illustrated by Edward Gorey with these weird—but at the same time intriguing—macabre illustrations of supernatural things in pen-and-ink and some color," he said. "I really enjoyed the books, and as a by-product of that I started getting more interested in the illustrations...
...photographs from the early 1940s show Paris as sunny, airy, bursting with color. Its inhabitants appear carefree, content and refreshingly unaware of their proclivity for looking très chic. It's all very much at odds with the prevailing image of the French capital suffering and smoldering under the yoke of its Nazi occupiers. Indeed, that very dissonance has made the current photo exhibit "Parisians Under the Occupation" one of the city's most controversial cultural events of late. Was life in Nazi-controlled Paris really as idyllic as these pictures suggest...
...Despite the photographs' propagandistic intent, curators note that their esthetic quality - not to mention their rarity as color prints from that period - make the case for their display. Indeed, even Girard noted that "had it been clearly explained to the public that these were propaganda photos on display, the exhibit could have been very interesting." While most photos clearly present an idealized and flattering picture of occupied Paris, other shots featuring Nazi flags, German installations, and huge numbers of uniformed soldiers mingling on familiar Parisian streets leave little doubt as to the actual context...
...support extraterrestrial life because larger planets tend to be entirely gaseous and inhospitable to organisms like those on Earth. The laser provides a way to measure the near-imperceptible changes in a star’s light that are induced by orbiting planets. Planet gravity minutely affects the color of light emitted by stars they orbit by altering the star’s own movements. Such light changes—called “doppler shifts”—produce redder light when gravity nudges the star towards an observer and bluer light when gravity moves it away...
...failed,” Moses said. “In spite of all of it, there are still persons of color who don’t feel like they own the place, women who feel alienated, and people who feel they have to compromise themselves too much to be a part of Harvard...