Word: caucasians
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...which celebrated the 70s theme of stylistic excess manifested in flashy clothes and absurdly over-the-top hairstyles. Noticeable throughout the show was the pairing off of couples of different ethnic backgrounds, and the multiracial aspect wasn’t lost on Ardrey and Melvin. Playing up the lame Caucasian stereotype, they directed David A. Wallach ’07 in vaulting himself through Studio 54’s velvet ropes, after which he was carried off the stage by Mike Beal ’06 and Jason W. Norman...
Among other highlights, "Super Unleaded" sketches a devastating portrait of dysfunctional family dynamics in just a few short pages. The unnamed teenage narrator has become the reluctant communication bridge between his non-verbal parents. That he is the child of a Korean mother and Caucasian father only adds to the story's complexity without making it strictly about cultural gulfs. On the opposite end of the comix scale is "Oliver Pikk," featuring a walking, talking skewered olive who complains about his sex life. Why doesn't he believe in aliens, for example? Because, "the thought of an entire species...
...blonds quickly came to dominate the selection (as they did Hefner?s choice of companion). The traces of baby fat in the 50s and 60s Playmates gave way to the buffed and sanded ladies of the workout era. They were usually, though not necessarily, busty, and almost always Caucasian. And always very American: the ideal of the middle-class Midwestern boy who ran the magazine. Even the German models Hefner added for spice in 1961 (Heidi Becker, Christa Speck) looked like red-white-and-blue farm girls...
...Stop now!) For most of his life, Coleman has held in a central fact about himself--one that should make him proud but gave him shame. He is black, though he looks white. And since his teens he has renounced his race and his family to "pass" as a Caucasian. He told no one; only he can appreciate the stark irony of his predicament...
This is a tricky business. The articles explore ways to straighten or subtly change the width of an African-American patient's nose while still allowing for a slight flaring of the nostrils. They explain how Asian eyes, which tend to lift slightly higher in the corner than do Caucasian eyes, often look tired or old beyond their years when that corner drops down with time. These patients want to look younger, but they aren't interested in having their ethnicity erased with a standard eye lift...