Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Movie critics had their sights set on Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple long before it was released. They sharpened their knives for Sting's Bring On the Night before it was even filmed. The critical eye can often be green with envy...
...responsibilities between private and public agencies has meant no peace and plenty of worries. "It's a clumsy bureaucracy," Adlerstein admits good-naturedly. Most disputes have been small. Burgee, architect of the new Liberty Island plaza, had a recent week long argument with the Park Service over the proper color (his white vs. its gray) of outdoor chairs. After 15 phone calls he surrendered...
...Edwards, D-Calif., the chairman of the House civil rights subcommittee, said that the high court "recognizes that in order to get beyond racism and sexism, we often must take race and sex into consideration. It's both silly and naive to think that we live in a color-and gender-blind society that would allow the passive policies of the Justice Department to work...
...quotas to set aside 10% of federal contracts for minority-owned businesses under a public-works act passed by Congress. Supreme Court Expert Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute suggests that Scalia would not "cotton to" such a decision and predicts a "move to a more color-blind jurisprudence." In a 1979 article in the Washington University Law Quarterly, Scalia bluntly stated his views: "I am, in short, opposed to racial affirmative action for reasons of both principle and practicality. Sex-based affirmative action presents somewhat different constitutional issues, but it seems to me an equally poor idea...
...former all-Ivy forward and assistant varsity soccer coach at Harvard, Malin's big television break came in 1978 when he became color commentator for the New York Cosmos, the preeminent soccer team in the now defunct North American Soccer League (NASL). Before that he had done a few televised games for the New England Tea Men of the NASL...