Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's North Carolina case, a former teller at a Winston-Salem credit union sought to use a Reconstruction-era statute to make her case of racial harassment against her former employer. Among other things, she claimed that she had been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...
...CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming, go-to-meeting country music, by a new Nashville hotshot. Black sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning, and he's got a knack for cozy melodies...
Snyder lost his respectability and his job as a television tout when he branched out into anthropology and started handicapping black athletes' thighs. Previously, neither CBS nor its audience appeared to mind his old gambling conviction. (Nobody cares or even recalls that President Ford also pardoned Jimmy.) Softened memories are measures of attitudes...
...evidence, consider the Kronos concert at Manhattan's Alice Tully Hall last month. It was a multimedia program, arranged by the avant-garde Italian stage designer Alessandro Moruzzi, titled "Assembly Required." Dressed in unisex costumes of jet-black shirts and slacks, the four musicians walked onto a stage jumbled with speakers, tape equipment and an assortment of lights and mechanical gears. Before each of the scheduled four works, played without intermission, the Kronos members, in stately, choreographed movements, placed the lights and objects to cast different shadow forms on four screens set up behind their chairs. The program typically offered...
Wuer Kaixi. 21. A Uighur with wavy black hair, big round eyes, high cheekbones. Shown last week on Chinese television on secret videotape from a Beijing hotel that falsely suggested he was eating when he was on a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square. Wanted by the Chinese government. His crime: he was a leader of the prodemocracy movement...