Word: white
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...exactly Wall Street. One analyst tells me later that "it's nice to be in a suburban area. It has its advantages--it makes a more relaxed attitude at work." "Relaxed" isn't the first word that springs to mind, though. The office is in a bland white building overlooking the interstate on one side and a busy street lined with fast-food restaurants on another. At least the view of Manhattan is magnificent--as Shemmer leads me on a tour of the office I take in the architecture of the bridge and an unobstructed view of the city...
...when I found out that Hsing-Hsing, suffering from kidney disease, was euthanized at the zoo Sunday, I was sad. When you are five years old and go to the zoo and see a big, black-and-white fuzzy bear, you don't think Nixon. You don't think China. You think cute. And you think forever...
...black and white and dead all over," my editor said, when I told him I was in mourning...
...West Side Story": it's a love story in which two teenagers, Tony and Maria, fall for each other against the backdrop of inner-city New York gang fighting. The musical's script, by Arthur Laurents, updates Shakespeare's tale of Capulets and Montagues by casting a gang of white New Yorkers against a gang of Puerto Rican immigrants...
Just as the point of "Romeo and Juliet" was to emphasize the power of love over the irrationality of rivalry and hate, "West Side Story" reminds us that issues of discrimination and injustice never go away. The portrayals of the gangs, white and Puerto Rican, are intended to illuminate the desperate situation of a life based on violence and discrimination along racial lines...