Word: colorism
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...soon as he became famous as an impressionist, he stopped doing characters. After he got traction as a stand-up, he retired his act, going onstage without any material, often being overtly hostile to his audience. When that got him a job on Fox's sketch show In Living Color and led quickly to a $20 million paycheck, he decided to ditch his devoted Adam Sandler-loving audience by making the disturbing, dark comedy The Cable Guy and dropped his price to make such dramas as The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
...surface, there wasn’t much to it.At the start of last Friday night’s women’s basketball game against rival Princeton, the public address announcer informed the crowd, simply, “the colors this evening are presented by Harvard cadets.” The presentation of colors is so commonplace a formality at sporting events across the country that the casual or visiting fan among the 1,537 that packed Lavietes Pavilion that night—including former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher, whose daughter Meghan stars for the Tigers?...
...universe. Yet whichever style suited his purpose, Filonov always pursued it with an idiosyncratic intensity. Rather than starting with the big picture and filling in the details later, Filonov started with the details, which he called "atoms," until the canvas or paper was full of painstakingly executed kaleidoscopic color cells. A pattern emerged organically as he linked each atom with its neighbors in a web of shapes and lines. "Each part of his every picture is a fulfilled picture by itself," says Avtonomova...
...which she chaired from 1975 to 1979. Knafel Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly was among the music professors present at the event. He spoke highly of Southern’s achievements and her impact on music. “She distinguished herself absolutely without reference to gender or color. She was good at what she did,” he said. Southern’s portrait was created by Stephen E. Coit ’71. An applied math and computer science concentrator during his undergraduate years, Coit worked as a venture capitalist before dedicating himself to painting. Coit...
...pair of solid-looking work boots bearing a famous label. A few months later, I am still wearing the boots. Much to the amusement of my children, though, where once the pair were a uniform tan, one has now metamorphosed to a deep orange while the other is the color of milky coffee. When I went back to the Silk Market to complain, the person who sold me the boots was nowhere to be seen. How do you say caveat emptor in Chinese...