Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like "Frankie was a flaming fag." After a few more failed attempts, they stumbled on a "cool guy who had never sung before, but who was really into the same kinds of music we were," Tarver says. Kurt Davis, otherwise known as Yukki, performs in a bathrobe, changes the color of his mane of hair every few weeks and drinks two liters of Jolt cola daily...
Jesse Jackson won in Michigan, where he drew widespread white support and beat the establishment candidate. Then came Wisconsin--more excitement, huge crowds, and whites saying that a candidate's color did not matter as long as he had something to say. But then Dukakis won, and kept on winning. The two who had the most money, the best organizations, and the least to say, found themselves on their way to the nomination...
...known Woody Bracey for 34 years," Danielssaid, "There is nothing in his soul that isracially motivated. I've never heard him refer toanyone in a rude or derogatory way [because] oftheir color of skin, religion or national origin...
Bobby Kennedy, more than any presidential candidate before Jesse Jackson, gave hope to Black America. He was fond of chiding white college audiences for the noticeable absence of people of color in their midst. When challenged on the war issue by an angry white undergraduate, he shot back that one of the biggest tragedies of the war was the fact that it was whites, almost exclusively, who had the opportunity to question the war; Blacks were denied the privilege because they were more than likely dying on far away battlefields...
Clothes are important, and a thrasher turnout has standard components: oversize T shirt, baggy shorts, high-top sneakers and, often topping it off, a kind of revisionist Huntz Hall cap. Those basics allow for infinite variations in color and design, and the skateboarding T shirts sold in stores like Rip City in Santa Monica, Calif., have a heady graphic punch that combines elements of biker insignia, psychedelic coloring and underground-comics' goofiness. Surfers favor light colors, but skaters go for darker hues. "Dark colors make more of a hard-core statement than bright surf wear," says Santa Monica Artist...