The original colors of ancient Greek and Roman statues unveiled by technology. What’s the Latin root for “gaudy?”
August 27th, 2010 link to (permalink)
There were cries of protest from purists when the technology was developed to colorize old black-and-white movies; one of the companies doing it generated plenty of bad press for colorizing an old Sinatra flick--and rendering his eyes brown. (Does the nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes" mean anything?)
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