Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alice Walker ascended from the realm of mere literature after Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of her novel The Color Purple. The movie's huge commercial success -- and the controversy that arose over its portrait of black males -- ensured Walker's public renown as a woman with a cause, an author who, when she has a message, would rather write a book than call Western Union. Indeed, her poetry and fiction have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose...
Shortstop Dave O'Connell is one of the Crimson's players who attacks each game. In addition to batting .292, O'Connell has been stellar in the field with a .932 fielding percentage. A vaccum, a black hole, O'Connell solidifies Harvard's infield and stifles opposing hitters...
Claiming that Cambridge police officers last month singled them out of a crowded University shuttle bus because of their race, two Black students yesterday field a formal complaint with the city's Police Review and Advisory Board...
Both Cochrane and Williams are Black, and neither is over six feet tall...
During each successful contest, Ward crafts a picture of the owner that makes her an extreme caricature of the capitalist class. Sitting in her luxury box seat, flanked by her lackey general manager and two servants clad in white dinner jackets with black bow-ties, she frets over the success of her ball club and sips a cool drink. She exudes the air of either a colonial plantation owner, who cannot squeeze any more productivity out of the slaves who are cultivating the fields, or a Roman emperor who condescendingly passes judgment over her subjects at a gladiator's match...