Iris Apfel was Right — Beige WILL Kill Us

Where’s the Colour in My Life?

Alison Acheson
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7 min readMar 19, 2024

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Photo by Austin Scherbarth on Unsplash

Recently, I saw the music documentary Immediate Family by the director of (the equally wonderful!) Wrecking Crew. A quick shot stood out in the midst of the film: a moment on a Los Angeles highway in the mid-1970s.

What exactly stood out in that image?

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Alison Acheson
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My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.