For Openers

In Living Color

A

baby is expected. A boy?
ered a healthy one. That does not
Paint the room blue. A
hold true for a rubicund (red) nose,
girl? Paint the room pink. which was often a sign of excess
Those who want to be surprised
drink (e.g. W.C. Fields), but the
will go for green or yellow decora-
same condition worked well for the
tions.
reindeer Rudolph. If you irritate
Whatever the choice, color plays an
someone by bringing up a touchy
important part in our lives
subject, it is like waving a
and affects many of our
red flag in front of a bull.
expressions.
Note, however, that bulls
• Pink
are color blind and it is
These days, one is often
the movement, not the
worried that he'll be
color that angers them. A
handed a pink slip and
red-haired individual may
therefore be terminated
bear the nickname "Red."
from his job. This pink
If a teacher or editor finds
slip is not to be confused
fault with your composi-
with the one that falls into
tion,
he may "red ink it,"
Sy M anello
the category of "unmen-
even
if he uses a different
Edi torial
tionables" — a term
color
pen.
Ass istant
completely lost on readers
• Blue
of Victoria's Secret cata-
This color, too, can have
logues. Others of us try to
good and bad "sides!' If
remain in the pink (be healthy) and
you feel down, you may be said to be
go in for rigorous exercise.
blue. The 'sorrowful" jazz music is
• Purple
often called the Blues. Blue material.
Writers who are overly fond of
However, is frowned upon because
purple prose (flowery language) may it is thought to be risque. It would
find an audience in pulp fiction,
never be tolerated by the upper
but not in the journalistic world. If
crust — the blue bloods. Pleading
you are "born to the purple you are with someone to no avail can be
of royal blood and would never be
described as talking until you are
heard singing that old ditty about
blue in the face.
the "Purple People Eater."
• Green
• Gray
If you are ecologically minded
From the battles involving the
then you should Go Green! That
clash between the Blue and Gray to
may lead you to saving money
the sight of gray skies, the color has
(greenbacks). If you are new at
few positive references. Suffering
something, however, you may be
from shock, you may be described
"green" and that's not good. Often,
as looking gray; a vague area is
remembrances — pictures, plaques,
often a gray one; and, of course,
statues — help to keep memories
there are references to the Old Gray
green (alive). To be really healthy,
Mare not being what she used to
you must eat your greens. If you
be and people worrying abut their
strike it rich, you may make a trip
treatment when they "are old and
to the Emerald Isle (Ireland); that
gray."
should make your friends green
• Red
with envy.
A way of acknowledging embar-
And here you thought that the
rassment is to say, "Is my face red!"
only answer to a more colorful life
Yet, a ruddy complexion is consid-
was to ask Sherwin Williams! 0

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