Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thousand books and untold memories, has soaked our imaginations for a half-century. We have attended their inaugurations and weddings and football games and too many of their funerals. We knew they were not like us, but we watched them all the more. We saw them in black and white, blessed and cursed, the image of the merry young father climbing off the helicopter, wrapping his arms around the tiny boy who ran across the lawn to him, cuddling his son in the rowboat, walking on the beach, tumbling in the grass. The pictures of President Kennedy...
...beauty that movie stars want and are supposed to have but don't. A face just old enough to be interesting and young enough to be perfect, with the kind of manly features that make you think of the handsome man in a 1950s magazine ad. Thick, shiny black hair, a slim muscular body on which his dark suit draped in soft folds. Afterward, I wondered if it was something like what Scott Fitzgerald saw when he remembered the college football stars of his young manhood, those young men who just then, on the gridiron and in their youth, were...
This was, in retrospect, perhaps not the best month for Calista Flockhart to invite the press to "kiss my skinny white ass." And for once, "skinny" wasn't the problem. "White," rather, reminded us too vividly that Fox had bumped to midseason the heftier black keister of Thurgood Stubbs, animated star of The PJs, in favor of Ally, the half-hour Mini-Me to Ally McBeal and, incidentally, part of the most Caucasian fall lineup in years. It should not have surprised anyone, then, that N.A.A.C.P. president Kweisi Mfume last week issued a similarly spirited directive to the Big Four...
...minority characters on existing shows and scramble to make last-minute cast additions. But the issue is more than numbers. It's the future of integration. Network prime time has not just been whitewashed, as Mfume says, it's also been redlined--divided into distinct white and minority (mostly black) 'hoods. Four years after Oprah Winfrey challenged Ross and Rachel to "get a black Friend," the most diverse group on NBC's Must-See comedies is the paint-colored men diving into the peacock logo at breaks, while UPN and the WB have a stable of black-cast comedies. Only...
...black-themed programming is, comparatively, the good news. Space aliens will have more network lead roles than Asians or Native Americans, while Hispanics, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, are woefully underrepresented. "Networks have realized they can't stereotype us, but instead they ignore us," says Lisa Navarrete, spokeswoman for the Hispanic advocacy group the National Council of La Raza. And the networks' few efforts at Hispanic- or Asian-themed programs (see, or better yet don't, the misused Margaret Cho in All-American Girl) have been feeble and short-lived, feeding the belief that they're untenable...