Word: colored
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...case is a white male. Why don't the police feel compelled to stop and search every white man on the street? Why aren't white men suspects because of their dress or because they look "suspicious"? Why aren't their homes randomly searched because of the color of their skin? An acquaintance responded that "they should not use those policies because most whites are not capable of such violent crime...
Second Shift also falters when Hochschild's personal prejudices color her descriptions of the couples she observes. She tends to ascribe nefarious subconscious motives to minor actions that aren't necessary to prove her overall point. For example, when a husband in the study made a joke about housework, she accuses him of denying the problems in his home. (In fact, he did deny them, but not because of the joke.) At worst, Hochschild chastises a father as a bad parent for refusing to do a "camel walk" with his baby...
Church adored Turner, the greatest theatrician of landscape who ever lived, with his cloud arches and burning transparencies, his glooms and veils of color. Church had seen a few Turners, which had found their way to America by then; he was also much influenced by the vast apocalyptic paintings of John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath and The Last Judgement, shown in New York soon after they were painted in the 1850s. Church wanted to stun and to instruct, to absorb the "Holy Book" of nature along with the Holy Writ of John Ruskin's writings...
...Olympics. Deborah Sussman's graphics and Jon Jerde's evanescent architecture for the Games of the Los Angeles Olympics were homogeneous, sunny, reassuring, nice. The color palette of the cardboard columns and fabric-covered fences was precisely of its time and place, beach-blanket postmodernism come to temporary life. For mere millions of dollars (rather than hundreds of millions), an Olympiad found its perfect aesthetic expression...
black, the voguish color for '80s objects. The background of these pages, black matte, is an homage to that design enthusiasm...