Word: cooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Veeck immediately launched a $1,000,000 refurbishing program. The facade of sickly Suffolk green was replaced with vibrant yellow along with occasional splashes of cool blue and hot red. He personally took a sledgehammer to the dingy rest rooms, did away with pay toilets, ripped the barbed wire off the fences, ordered 24 apple trees planted in the infield and reduced the admission fee to $1.50 for both the clubhouse and the grandstand. "Notice the new green carpet in the clubhouse," he readily tells passersby. "Color is so important...
...What black fiction can begin to compare with The Autobiography of Malcolm X or even Claude Brown's somewhat overrated Manchild in the Promised Land? The fire a black autobiographer kindles burns the reader. The fire a black novelist sets has a way of burning himself -blowing his cool, singeing his prose style and casting clouds of smoke over his intentions...
...somehow managed to make it from the back of the field all the way up to the photographer's pit to stand beside me). Wein, who earned whatever amount of money he's making on this with a down payment on an ulcer, kept asking everybody to "keep it cool," and he was pretty much successful. At any rate, the ugly scene never happened--thank God (or somebody...
...make a pratfall out of a pitfall, how to convert sordid realism into a sort of surrealism. The residual moral is as harrowing as the punch line of a good black-humor joke is meant to be-what cruelly absurd ends men are capable of reaching simply by being cool and reasonable...
...Fine Arts is silent. Girls in white pinafores stare from the spacious brown canvas by John Singer Sargent across an empty room to the portraits on the opposite wall. A single spectator feels like an intruder, as he passes between a Renoir and a Manet, conversing peacefully in a cool windowless room...