Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come in here as a black man and not feel a sense of history," says Terry Woods, a technician, as he sits at a once segregated lunch counter. "We get along with whites here," says Woods, 33. "I am not going to vote for a man because of the color of his skin." But, he adds, "I do like Jesse, because I like to think that one day a black man will be there...
...postwar high of 80%. Now the percentages are moving up again. For the past year and a half, the white shirt has been the best-selling item at Mark Shale's, and at New York City's trendy Bloomingdale's white shirts now comprise 65% of designer solid-color dress shirts, up from 50% two years...
...trend is even being felt in Japan, where the word for a dress shirt of . any color is waishatsu (white shirt). Comme des Garcons, a stylish Japanese clothing firm noted for its somber blacks and grays, is this year featuring waishatsu that for a change really are white...
This new black consciousness has found an editorial voice in several magazines. The best is Tribute, a glossy full-color monthly that profiles successful blacks and plays to their growing taste for the good life. It features splashy articles about fashion and travel interspersed with ads touting expensive perfumes and sports cars. Two years ago, says Tribute Editor Maud Motanyane, black radicals would have dismissed buppies as "irrelevant to the struggle." Not anymore. "Black businessmen are not apologizing for what they have and what they have achieved. They are saying, 'We might own our own big cars and houses...
...spoke out sharply against U.S. "ultra-rightists" who sought to undermine the accord. He also lashed out at those Western "imperialists" who oppose the Soviet Union because "they fear a revival of the attractive force of socialist ideas." Such words reflected the deep-seated distrust that often seems to color the Soviet leader's view of the West...