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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amber soon finds she has a zaftig rival: Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake), who is plump, perky and, pound for bouffanted pound, the snappiest Caucasian dancer in town. The girl has that je ne sais quoi called Star Quality. Soon Tracy is outshining Amber on TV, modeling dresses for a full-figure salon called the Hefty Hideaway and causing a rumpus by insisting that black teenagers be allowed to dance along with whites on Corny's show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buxom Belles in Baltimore HAIRSPRAY | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...Viet Cong escaped detection by U.S. soldiers by hiding out in a network of narrow, subterranean tunnels. Next, visitors are invited to go below ground and taste the claustrophobic flavor of tunnel life for themselves. The guides hasten to point out that the passageways have been enlarged to accommodate Caucasian visitors. Before the group descends, Hai recites the tunnel dwellers' motto: "When you walk without footmarks, when you talk without a sound, when you cook without smoke, that is how you survive." After a few -- interminable -- minutes most visitors are eager for a peek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Welcome Back to Viet Nam | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...distributed in 167 countries, eventually came to rival Mom and apple pie as an American icon. Before skin flicks and magazines became commonplace, National Geographic offered generations of boys their first opportunity to ogle bare-breasted women -- though the breasts were almost always African or Asian, rarely Caucasian. Even today the magazine is squirreled away each month like precious treasure by many of the society's 10.5 million members, who boast floor- sagging collections and trade back copies until they are tattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Happy 100, National Geographic | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

Yale police would not comment on the fact that a male Caucasian wearing a Yale hockey jersey, a blue bandanna, and blue sunglasses was driving a steam shovel through downtown New Haven at a fast rate last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $45K Lost in Break-In: Blow Torch, Shovel | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

Yale police refused comment on the fact that a male Caucasian wearing a blue hockey jersey, a blue bandanna, blue sunglasses, and blue sneakers was seen exiting the rink in broad daylight yesterday with the entire heating system and a blowtorch...

Author: By Matt Wagner, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Trying to Keep the Hockey Ice Slushy | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

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