Word: colourant
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...part of its North American tour, King Crimson comes to Boston with opener Living Colour. King Crimson’s current line-up includes Robert Fripp on the guitar, Adrian Belew on guitar and lead vocals, Trey Gunn on the touch guitar and Pat Mastelotto on the drums. Though originally hailed as “the next Beatles,” King Crimson has spent its past four decades of existence evading any kind of simple characterizations. With their newly-released double disc-set Eyes Wide Open, this group continues their refreshingly improvisational style. This appearance will be King Crimson?...
Most noticeable neurosis or idiosyncracy: Likes to group books by colour of cover...
...Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die." Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train...
...which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own, and having pow'r T' inforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. . . . And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...
...Where and how we draw our colors is the subject of Victoria Finlay's book, Colour: Travels through the Paintbox. A British author and adventurer, Finlay embarks on a quest for the origins of colors?her favorites, anyway. Finlay is part scholar, part mad scientist and always a sprightly and engaging storyteller. This search takes her, inevitably, to Sar-e-Sang mine in northern Afghanistan, the main source of lapis. "The first 20 meters would have given the stones for the Egyptian tombs," she writes. "A little later was where the Bamiyan Buddhas got their haloes." Deeper down was "where...