Their actions and reactions when faced with war or the personal prospect of war — colored by their times, their backgrounds, and their upbringings — had been very different.
It usually features linear non-objective painting in broad strokes, when it is not a maelstrom of curlicues, avoids strident, warring colors; is disciplined, decorative, and spiritually happy, rather than creatively morbid.
In allowing ourselves to be distracted by terror drills, foreign wars, color-coded warnings, underwear bombers and other carefully constructed exercises in propaganda, sleight of hand, and obfuscation, we failed to recognize that the true enemy to freedom was lurking among us all the while.
"The Second World War in Color," a TWI/ Carlton co-production for ITV, Britain.
Burrows was the first important photographer to do a whole war in color — another gain in verisimilitude and shock.
(Note: I hate all things Star Wars, so color me biased).
And now, at Obama's moment of peril, when people who are losing their heads want him to lose his, we need the cooler minds of a generation that grew up with endless wars and color-coded terrorist alerts.
These are some of the special lessons this week in School District 28 in Queens, home of 30 public schools, 26,000 children and a superintendent and deputy superintendent who have been decked out in warring team colors for days, babbling statistics and childhood baseball memories.
The prison-born gangs of the 80s and 90s warred over colors and exacted lifetime membership through brutal initiation rites.
Our last Democratic president left office with a surplus that Bush whittled away to pay for two wars and color-coded threat assessment charts.
