Word: noncolor
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...Dark tones are as powerful for me as colors," Adjaye explains. "Shadow is just as important as light. In the modernist canon, light equals well-being. But I think it's sad that certain colors have been relegated to the realm of noncolor because of superstitious and simplistic associations...
...sluggish layer of air loiters over the sound, which has turned to a noncolor of thick, translucent plastic. The tide rummages with the pebbles. Gulls laugh themselves sick. What's so funny, I'd like to know. I'd like to know who is going to be the last Survivor. I'd like to know who is going to remember last week's aids conference in Africa. I'd like to know who is going to remember Africa. You know? I'm losing my memory. I'd like to try that new Alzheimer's vaccine. Do I like tuna tartar...
...should be respected by other children," she said. She meant it. This is classic educator thinking: rigidity and humorlessness put forward as policy. But this is Minnesota, where Appropriate Behavior rides high in the saddle and where you hear yourself, a pink person, referred to as "a person of noncolor," and you open the morning paper and find 10,000 words about why we should all appreciate racial and ethnic diversity. It's called civic journalism, and the tone is so gummy and patronizing, you can easily see why Minnesota elected a Governor who once earned his living screeching...
...strict filmic terms. Brook and his cameraman, Henning Kristiansen, supply plenty of visual pyrotechnics. One decision was splendid. The dominating color, or noncolor, of the film is white. This creates the proper sensation of wintry old age and bleakness. The film gives off an almost palpable and desolating coldness, as if one were witnessing snow on the craters of the moon. But the defect of that virtue surfaces at the fulcrum of the play, which is the vast raging storm on the heath. The lashing rain seems incongruous in such an icy climate, and no one's thoughts should...
...avoidance of extremes. Says Winick: "Light from her cigar may provide the only brightness" on modern woman's "barely there" face. Houses are becoming sexless: they contain few leather club chairs or boudoir chairs-or even boudoirs. In interior decoration, the most popular hue is a noncolor, beige. Names too are sexually equivocal; one child out of five has a name like Robin or Leslie or Dana...
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