Word: pastel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When students entered the Yard last week to shop classes, they surely noticed the sea of pastel-colored chairs dotting the center of Harvard’s campus—and perhaps even stopped for a seat themselves. The 476 chairs and 82 tables, spread throughout the Yard and the Quad, represent the first initiative of a 22-member Committee on Common Spaces, which University President Drew G. Faust tasked with developing new social spaces for the Harvard community. While the reaction of the student body has been mixed, the chairs do bring a new and welcome character to warm...
...that she wore to receive the heir to the Japanese throne? Or the one-shouldered white cocktail number that she paired this summer in Mallorca with the chunky necklace? It wasn't that long ago that Letizia Ortiz, 37, tended to dress in the anchorwoman's power blazers and pastel cardigans. But somewhere along the line, the former journalist has become a fashion icon, coming in number two on Vanity Fair's renowned Best Dressed List for 2009. That's what being princess of Spain - or at least getting used to the role - will do for a person...
...hard to drive down a residential street in Miami Gardens, Fla., and not see two, three, four houses in foreclosure. Some have been on the auction block since last year; they are once handsome, pastel-colored ranch houses that are now surrounded by waist-high weeds or boarded-up windows. "The tarp on that busted roof is about to disintegrate, it's been there so long," says Andre Williams, a Harvard-educated real estate attorney and Miami Gardens city councilman, pointing at one of the houses and shaking his head at the state of the solid middle-class, African-American...
...Academy Award winner for his 2001 film, Spirited Away - begins deep in the sea near a Japanese coastal village, and the underwater vision is both subtle and spectacular. Instead of relying on the usual cartoon bubbles and wisecracking fish, Miyazaki waves a wand and establishes his location with a pastel palette, the gentle undulating of flora and anemones, and Joe Hisaishi's haunting score. You're treated, aurally and visually, to a subterranean symphony...
From the Kennedys to the Clintons to the unfortunate shark victims of Jaws, Martha's Vineyard, an island off the Massachusetts coast, has long conjured visions of well-heeled, sunburned Caucasians swarming its beaches and boardwalks in Top-Siders and pastel shorts. Yet when President Barack Obama and his family descend on this dune-swept summer playground the last week of August, they'll also find an island of rich diversity and harmonious race relations...