Word: colored
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...wrote about an episode that remains, in the history of Mexican-American student life at Harvard, one of failure. And if there is one thing that Harvard students, of any color, don't handle well, it's failure. The story of Joe Razo is first and foremost an embarrassment that the most liberal advocates of affirmative action--as well as the students that have benefitted from the program--would like to forget. Or just...
...signal a comprehensive approach would be to maintain full-fledged embassies in four far-flung corners of the Third World that have long been color-coded red on American maps: Afghanistan, Angola, Cuba and Viet Nam. By snubbing those governments in various ways, Washington is doing more than just underscoring its disapproval of their leaders; it is also stubbornly reaffirming the implication that they are minions of Moscow...
...Feld show is a mixture of world-class performances, a sensory overload of color and music, and roller-coaster pacing. Calculating that the attention span of the average child is about 8 1/2 minutes, he cuts most acts to their best eight. Feld's formula includes a dash of gimmickry to pack 'em in. In 1985 it was the "Living Unicorn," a goat whose horns had been surgically fused. The stunt drew criticism from animal-rights activists but boosted ticket sales by more than 20%. Says Feld: "P.T. Barnum would have been proud...
...loans," says Brian M. Baldwin, who studies in a joint MPP-law degree program. "The problem is that given my own tastes [non-profit] is what I would like to do, but when we come out of these programs we are heavily in debt and that tends to color my thinking...
...when you step back, and the details disappear, and the paintings become strange mosaics of jeweled color and gold. They take on an almost abstract quality. This is because Islamic art, unlike Western, was rendered in an intentional two-dimensionality. The works are fascinating because they are drawn from many viewpoints--there are no shadows to imply depth or perspective...