Word: yellowness
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It’s very simple. You see a sticker, a yellow arrow pointing to a building, a car, a fire hydrant, a rock, a small dog, etc. You pull out your cell phone and text-message the sticker’s code to the phone number provided and then receive a short phrase of poetic or historical explanation that reveals the importance of the object. Then you place a few arrows of your own, and suddenly you’re part of a global community of people linked to each other through the expression of their love...
This is the basic idea behind YellowArrow, a project with roots in performance art that started in New York this summer and has since spread across the country and throughout the world. From Berlin to California, people are enlivening cities with these bright yellow stickers and with the forum for communication they provide. Anyone can get involved by going to the website or by simply text-messaging the code whenever they spot yellow arrow. It’s been called a game, a form of graffiti, and the largest performance art piece ever attempted. More than just a scattering...
This is cause for real concern. Although the CIA dropped the ball on the question of Iraqi WMD’s, their poor performance still put the Administration politicos to shame. Remember the embarrassing episode with that non-existent yellow-cake uranium from Niger? Despite CIA analysts’ concerns about the strength of the evidence, Thomas Rider, the former politically-appointed intelligence chief at the Department of Energy, went ahead and used it as the basis for a July 2002 report arguing that Saddam was beginning to reconstitute his nuclear weapons programs (whereupon he received a big pay bonus...
...cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs the enterprising Childsplaytheater in Tempe, based on the death of his son, a hemophiliac, from AIDS at age 8--is as theatrically bold and emotionally wrenching as any recent American drama...
...pages of debate rules. The candidates were going to have their time limits policed by lights and buzzers, like a couple of Jeopardy! contestants. What a trap the Bushies had laid for a windbag like Kerry. At 30 seconds left, a green light would come on; at 15, a yellow one; and with five seconds left, a red one. If a candidate repeatedly went over his allotted time, the moderator could start using the buzzer--and everyone knew which of the two was more likely to make that happen...