Word: colored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Modeling agencies are finding ways to meet the demand for fresher faces by scouting all over the world and staging more contests. "If you see a beauty, you don't worry about her color. The perfectly proportioned features are no longer so important," says Ann Veltri, a vice president at Elite Model Management...
...what you will about imperialism, it does have a way of keeping the natives from killing one another. This truth is entirely color-blind. What was true for, say, British India and East Africa is true for Europe. For 40 years the brutal Soviet dominion over Eastern Europe suppressed a myriad of nationalisms and kept things quiet. Now that Soviet power is in retreat, things are quiet no more...
...Ingersoll contends that the P.D. fails to serve the market. "Two-thirds of the households do not read the Post-Dispatch," he claims. "The great challenge is that two-thirds, the unwashed, if you will, who are simply not interested." To reach them, the Sun will be a color- splashed tabloid "for today's video world." Post-Dispatch chairman Joseph Pulitzer Jr., who disputes Ingersoll's figures, declares, "We defend our franchise, and we will be vigorously competitive...
...apartheid. Our attention may be focused on the political education of Ben du Toit, but the Ngubene family is well particularized and their torments set forth unblinkingly, not to say horrifically. And Ben is provided with a guide to the realities of life on the other side of the color line: the tough, suspicious, ultimately compassionate taxi driver named Stanley (Zakes Mokae). He is a man who turns up in surprising places in unpredictable moods. He provides the bestartlements that shake Du Toit, who is appropriately all stunned introspection...
Guess that color commentator knows what he's talking about...