Word: maroons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...differential) tend to fade, like the colors of a chameleon, after a few years in the corporate world. Others, however, seem permanently tinted, chameleons that have mysteriously evolved into some slightly more agile species of lizard. Robert Almon, for example, wears the predictable colors: pink Oxfordcloth shirt, blue-and maroon-striped necktie, gray suit, black loafers as polished as medieval armor. One of six children of a Rhode Island family (his younger brother plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox), Almon majored in psychology and literature at Brown University, then got an M.B.A. from Harvard...
...bleachers blazed with fall colors: maroon, gold and red. Both sides answered every play with a standing roar, and Stanford drew nearly as many supporters as Boston...
...National Press Club--the capitol's branch of Alcoholics Anonymous--knows what he drinks. For Bakshian, it's been a long trip up from copy boy at U.S. News and World Report to "White House insider." He lumbers across the lounge--grey herringbone, white shirt with maroon navy pencil-thin tie, grey flannels--a figure that any Young Republican could look up to. As he talks--fast, clipped tones that emerge from somewhere under his Groucho Marx mustache--Bakshian switches back and forth from cigar to definitive statement to bottle of Bock's Beer...
...dancing you hear the same song 12 times and see 12 couples do the same figures. By the end, the performances have blended into one; costumes differentiate the couples, the British wear bright blue, the Soviets wear white and black, the Americans maroon. The ABC cameras are everywhere; people see this in their living rooms in Salt Lake City, Utah. And here we are watching it in person...
...that he thinks of it as red. To Cleary, every shade from maroon to magenta has one name, and that's crimson...