Word: paleness
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...Amarantine"EnyaThe video for her new single “Amarantine” raises an immediate and perplexing question: Is Enya supposed to be goth now? Maybe it’s just her jet-black dye job, ghostly pale complexion, and blood-red sateen dress throwing me off, but I swear I saw her queued for the midnight screening of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” last Friday. Or maybe that was her stocking up on pancake face powder at Hot Topic.Unfortunately, all of this posturing hasn’t improved her music. She?...
...Yalies’ prank attempt at The Game was but a pale, failed echo of last year’s epoch in prank history. After a wholesome afternoon visiting tailgates, Barrett B. Jackson ’06 and her gaggle of friends received two suspicious text messages from an unidentified number. “Remember: SCHOOL ON MONDAY!!! -John Harvard” read the first message, and “Hi [personalized names]! At the THIRD QUARTER KICKOFF, chant “We Suck” to prove to Yale (forever a safety school) that we don?...
...hard to fathom. Hers is a universal beauty, and in the West, despite concerns about the sun's rays and skin cancer, people spend billions of dollars trying to duplicate her caf au lait tone. But Asia, from its geishas to its Ganesha gods, has always prized the pale. And in India the desire is a national obsession. You see it in the personal ads, which range from the general ("Whitish girl invites match") to the pinpoint specific ("Suitable alliance invited for ... fair, smart, only daughter having advanced training in footwear molds designing") but consistently mention the aspirant's light...
...certain where this fascination with white skin originated. Thakur and Goenka point to pale-faced conquerors from Britain and central Asia who forcefully instilled a reverence for whiteness. Cultural conservatives complain Hollywood is pushing aside Indian heroes in favor of Westerners all too ready to display their pale flesh. Some sociologists argue that in a country where most people still farm, dark skin is associated with lowly labor in the outdoors...
...possibility that horrifies Watson. People come from around the world to her Toolern Vale property an hour outside Melbourne, and pay to stay the night just to hear her 16 dingoes howl at dusk. During the day the lean, aloof animals, most of them the pale sand color of the desert dingo, lie in the sun in their high-fenced enclosure, snuffling and backing away when a stranger arrives. Having bred them for 20 years, Watson's home is full of photos and paintings of dingoes, but her argument for their protection is based less on sentiment than...