Word: colorizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOME miscalculating psychiatrists performed a series of tests in the 1960s to discover which hue of color relieved feelings of fear and anxiety. After the study found that students would feel "more comfortable" if their exam books were a soft, pale blue, universities and high schools began to buy the now infamous "blue books...
...nervously toward Henderson, seeking rescue. She has plucked him out of the familiar styles he settled on back when a pair of Weejuns cost $20, and he is lost among the choices. The first sweater he bought with Henderson's help struck him as so ugly, so splotched with color, that he left it hanging in his room for a week. But people loved it, people who'd never looked at him twice, except in dismay. So he is meekly agreeable when Henderson puts him in a midnight blue Giorgio Armani suit with tone-on- tone striping. "To me, that...
...thought that spring break could not possibly get any more sophomoric, the Miller Brewing Co. presents Beachin' Times, a 16-page glossy advertisement that advises party dudes how to "scam babes" and turn the traditional Florida fling vacation "into your own personal trout farm." But the Beachin' Times, a color supplement that appeared in 55 campus newspapers in the U.S., has been wiped out by indignant collegians. At the University of Wisconsin, students even threatened to boycott the Milwaukee company's brew, while the Daily Iowan's editorial column slammed Miller for "propaganda that is so blatantly offensive...
...bomb that was detonated two days later aboard Flight 103 is thought to be similar to the one detailed in the memo. The British bulletin was also distributed to U.S. airlines, but because the packet of information included a color photograph, it had to be sent by mail. A Pan Am spokeswoman said last week that that warning did not reach the company's London office until...
...misses on three points. Firstly, it calls into question the legitimacy of discussion tables about politics, gay and lesbian issues, women's issues and theatrical events, each of which is made up of people with shared experiences and interests. Secondly, it sees the one table filled with people of color, but misses the surrounding 20 long tables lined with whites only. Finally, it sees each of the individuals at these tables as a color instead of as a human being...