Word: shade
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...oddity about this crusading pioneer was that he was a bit of a racist. Or, anyway, a shade-ist. Over and over he filmed the scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. Her lightness put her atop the hierarchy of virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense...
From the discreet burgundy shade of his silk tie to his delicate suede shoes to his beautiful white skin, Jonathan Bridgeman is the ideal Englishman. True, his background is a bit murky?they say he was raised in colonial India?but he affords the proper impression, and in a well-manicured world where impressions are all that matter, he fits in seamlessly. But Jonathan Bridgeman isn't English. He isn't Indian. He isn't anything...
Unfaithful (May 10): As his hair gradually turns a whiter shade of gray, Richard Gere’s name has increasingly become synonymous with overly sentimental and painfully earnest “adult relationship” movies. The question is, did Gere learn his lesson after the astoundingly unsuccessful Autumn in New York? Things aren’t looking promising, as his latest effort explores the disintegration of a marriage destroyed by an obsessive affair and asks whether a marriage infected by deceit, guilt and anger can “find a way to recover...
Montgomery never shies away from important issues and never takes the easy way out in dealing with them. With a few deft strokes, he manages to compress every in-between shade of gray into the dialogue and actions of his characters. Like the state of the world it reflects, good and evil are not always so clear-cut. Part of Hank’s journey of growth entails understanding and dealing with that realization...
...extra special for an extra special occasion. Finding the right make-up for my skin tone—somewhere between exotic, African-American, dark cocoa and kinky-headed Negro black—is, to be sure, an exhausting process. It’s not about finding just the right shade, but about finding a cosmetics line that produces and regularly distributes anything even remotely resembling the right shade...