Word: colorism
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Other student designers, however, come to Harvard with some familiarity with graphic design software. “In high school, I did a lot of journalism,” explains Ding. “My high school was fortunate enough to print a color newspaper with broadsheet, so that’s how I started working with Photoshop and InDesign.” Hsieh jokes that he started doing graphic design work before Harvard because “I just don’t like ugly things.” On a more serious note, he added...
Around Heidi flit a host of eccentric characters who add color and humor to the play. As Susan Johnston, Heidi’s volatile best friend, Emily B. Hyman ’13 was both boisterous and comical. She portrayed extreme change with grace. At the play’s beginning, she is a loud member of a woman’s collective in Montana. By the end, she is one more discouraging force in Heidi’s life. “I mean, equal rights is one thing, equal pay is one thing, but blaming everything on being...
...color of anger, danger and protest. So it's fitting that supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, have chosen deep scarlet as their identifying hue. Tens of thousands of Red Shirts have thronged Bangkok's government district since March 12 in increasingly virulent demonstrations demanding that current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva step down and hold new elections. But red is also the color of blood, and in response to Abhisit's steadfast refusal to resign, the Red Shirts decided to shed their own. As dawn broke on March 16, hundreds lined...
...always changing. Walking into their ski lodge circa 1986 - just as the guys are beginning to realize that they have time-traveled, clued in by indoor cigarette smoking, a "Where's the Beef" T-shirt and Ronald Reagan live on TV - Nick grabs a woman and demands, "What color is Michael Jackson?" Her well, duh response - "Black!" - sends all four shrieking to the safety of their room. It's funny, but in the present, Jackson isn't of ambiguous color, he's actually gone - and so the joke hangs in the air for an uncertain second. It's a reminder...
...campaign is not without precedent. Social media was embraced by activists during the protests after the contested 2009 presidential election in Iran, when users of Facebook and Twitter made their profile photos green - the color of the Iranian opposition...