Word: colored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singer/songwriter named Rickie Lee Jones. I first received a copy of her record, entitled ingeniously enough, Rickie Lee Jones. Then I got a press release telling me that I probably already knew how great Rickie was. While I was digesting that, I got a big full-color poster of Rickie with some philosophical comments about her life and work and ideas on it. And to make sure I was aware of their new talent. Warner Records sent me a postcard (they must have only one picture since they put it on the postcard too) telling me to be sure...
...Food & Drink" supplement ran to 48 glossy pages, bubbling with four-color national liquor ads and articles on such pressing concerns as "Fighting the Gourmet Blues" and "A Consumer Guide to Cognac." An insert in the Sunday New York Times? A section in Gourmet magazine? No, just a little light reading from that old, radical, worker-owned collective in Boston, the Real Paper...
...contrast to Fish's tradition-heaped ways, McGuire represented the opposite end of the spectrum. From the childhood days over his parents' bar to progressive coaching with the cast of athletic psychology, the NBC color commentator pulls no punches, rejects tradition as trouble and lives by a self-concerned conviction that would make the Schlitz gustograbbers ecstatic...
Refering to the building's interior, McKinnell said, "The attitude toward color and light adds to one's visual pleasure and makes it a very joyful building. It's a marvelous effort...
...sickle cell anemia. At fourteeen, I was completely paralyzed with humiliation. For a split-second I wanted not to be black. I wanted not to be black, because then perhaps this man would have been forced to confront the existence of my personality, rather than balking at my color and expediently dropping me into the first likely category...