Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pink triangles that gays wore in Miami are more than "reminiscent of the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear in Hitler's Germany" [June 20]; they are analogous. Gay people in Hitler's concentration camps were forced to wear pink triangles to show their status, just as Jews were forced to wear the yellow star. Hitler exterminated an estimated 220,000 gays in the concentration camps. Gay people wear the pink triangle today as a reminder of the past and a pledge that history will not repeat itself...
...squad traveled to Annapolis on Friday, April 29, and a sloppy fourth inning ("Our only bad inning of baseball all season," Park said) paved a yellow brick basepath for Navy, as the Midshipmen edged the Crimson, 6-3. "This was one of the few times all year that we let the game get away from us, that we lost control of the thing," Park said later...
...sometimes with humor. There was, for example, a time in the summer of 1909 when Luscomb was stumping for the suffrage and spoke at a small town near Haverell, Mass. It was an evening meeting in a town hall and, after the speaker had finished, a basket filled with yellow "Votes for Women" buttons was passed around the room. They cost one cent but the audience was gently reminded, "We wouldn't refuse more." Luscomb reached a burly, balding man in the sixth aisle who solemnly handed her double the requested amount. "It was worth two cents to hear...
...later a CBS studio, has been transformed into a dancer's Disneyland (membership $125 a year). The vast (5,000 sq. ft.) shuffle area is a stage, with theatrical lighting, scrims and backdrops rising as high as 85 ft. A dozen pencil-thin poles of red and yellow light blink, twirl, rise and fall amid the dancers; revolving silver prisms above the dance floor reflect flashing strobes. In all, there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon (a coke joke). While Studio 54 is fast, loud and frenzied...
...made witness to the process of painting: how this too obtrusive yellow is cut back, leaving the ghost of itself along a charcoal line; how that 45° cut is sharpened, then blurred, then hidden by veils of overpainting. To scan the sur face of a big Ocean Park is to watch these inflections become a kind of transparency, bathing the text...