Word: technicoloration
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Amos likes to make her voice heard. In person she's a wisp--a mere 5 ft. 3 in. with pale strawberry hair--but she is given to big technicolor pronouncements, especially on the subject of Christianity: "At five I really believed Jesus and Mary [Magdalene] were in love, and there was this whole thing going on," and "When you really think about Christianity, it is a religion without a penis...
...DiCillo (The Real Blonde Living in Oblivion. for technicolor...
...ancient rites that opened the 18th Winter Games were, in fact, apt for an Olympiad that some had been crowning the Attitude Games. As beach volleyball brought tank tops and bikinied dudes to the Summer Games in Atlanta, snowboarding, most conspicuously, looked to be smuggling a radical edge and Technicolor glint to the mild-mannered Winter Games. With the world-champion shredder refusing to show up, and even the Chinese athletes showing off their backflips in freestyle skiing, it could look as if the I.O.C. were a global subsidiary of MTV. (CBS even hired former MTV veejay Kennedy...
...June, Jim quit his job as a manager at Warner Bros. and took a position in Wilmington (pop. 13,000) with Technicolor's fast-growing film-distribution unit, one of many cutting-edge firms relocating to small-town America. He is elated at the move, but Kathy, born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, isn't so sure. Still working at Warner Bros. and settling affairs in Burbank, she came to Wilmington for the first time a week before the parade, wearing a fixed smile and a dazed, where-am-I? stare. The couple spent the week house hunting...
...outskirts of town into its national hub, and the sleepy town's fortunes were changed. Before Airborne, the unemployment rate was 9.8%; two-thirds of Wilmington High School graduates had to leave to find work. But after years of double-digit growth at Airborne, high-tech firms like Technicolor are moving to town to take advantage of Airborne's easy access to world markets. Unemployment is now less than...