Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESCRIPTION: Color: Historic and judicial time-line...
Before the Brown ruling, Kansas drew a haphazard color line between its schools, prohibiting segregation of all but elementary schools in most cities. By the time the court handed down its decision, Smith had enrolled in a junior high school in which blacks and whites had attended mixed classes for more than a decade. Says she: "I basically had the same experiences I would have had if the decision had not been handed down...
While filming The Color of Money and Top Gun, he proved a quick study in the pool hall and the cockpit. Now Tom Cruise, 24, has shifted gears again to test his learning curve on the auto racetrack. Cruise took the wheel of a Nissan 300 ZX turbo sports car last week while making his pro circuit racing debut at the Road Atlanta race course in Braselton, Ga. His wife of two months, Actress Mimi Rogers, cheered from the pit. So did his new pal and Money co-star, Paul Newman, 62, a veteran race-car driver who later took...
...first USA Today was scorned for its short, punchy articles. Critics dubbed it "McPaper," the journalistic equivalent of fast food, but soon major papers began imitating USA Today's artful use of color and snazzy graphics...
...consider justice, not in terms of objective standard--which may be free of racial motivations--but in the terms of a frightened city dweller who had previously been mugged by Blacks. There was no effort made to describe the appropriate response when four tough looking men of any color surround a person on the subway...