Word: coal-black
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...that would make a scene one could more easily believe in. After all, it repeats itself constantly one way or another these days-black and white giving each other the fish-eye in elevators; making great sudden arcs on the sidewalk; or even less subtle, the dinner party conversation between black and white that zeroes in on The Black and White Question like a surface-to-air missile. The lily-white athletic club. The coal-black radio station. It is odd to think that this is where the civil rights movement of the 1960s has wound up, or down...
...part of the frozen frivolities of the winter carnival in St. Paul, respectable citizens traditionally dress up in red devil costumes, smear their faces with coal-black grease paint and ride around town on a fire engine. The revelers, collectively known as "Vulcanus Rex and his Krewe," then swarm into offices and stores, firing blank cartridges from pistols and grabbing every woman in sight for a smudgy kiss...
...them, led by forceful Josephine Abaijah, 32, who is the only woman in the 100-member Papua New Guinea Parliament, trumpets independence for the southern region of Papua. A more serious threat to the new nation comes from separatists on the outlying island of Bougainville. Coal-black farmers and miners who disparagingly refer to lighter-skinned mainlanders as "redskins," the Bougainville secessionists argue that their island has stronger ethnic and geographic ties to the nearby Solomons, a British protectorate, than to New Guinea. A break with Bougainville would cripple the new country; the island is the site of Papua...
...first couple of verses and instantly, everyone stood up on his or her seats. The spots fell down upon the main mike next to which stood an emaciated Lou Reed, clad in a sleeveless black T-shirt and worn-out jeans. In addition, his almost platinum-bleached hair and coal-black sunglasses lent him an ominous air, the total embodiment of all Reed has ever represented...
...fire and explosion and roof falls kill fewer men than the slow stifling black lung disease-coal workers' pneumoconiosis, in proper medical terminology. "Black lung" is just that: a lung so clogged with the steady accumulation of coal particles that it no longer functions. When both of a miner's lungs are coal-black and completely clogged, they stop functioning, and he dies. The process, being cumulative, is slow and agonizing. The U. S. Public Health Service estimates that 125,000 miners-active and retired-are afflicted with black lung: and admits that the figure may be conservative, because reports...