Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter to TIME, Catherine Crow wrote about being disgusted by high-heeled shoes [LETTERS, Oct. 6]. Yes, they are coming back into popularity, but they have never been out of fashion with me. Since I was 14 (and I'm now 70), I have favored stilettos. I wear flat shoes only around the house. Wearing flat heels constantly is not good for the feet. I hope we will see more women wearing high heels to show off their legs. BERYL WITT Pleasant City, Ohio...
Never have they shied away from tackling more sober subjects, Brand New remains clear-eyed about both social injustice and sexual imprudence. "Imagine," an anti-racism track with a surprisingly earthy guest vocal from Sheryl Crow, stands too preciously beside its obvious ancestry in the namesake John Lennon tune to register very strongly. More effective is "The Clock Is Ticking," a rallying cry to abused women with an unaffected awareness of How Bad It Can Get: "You got kids, you got bills/You ain't got skills, you wanna take pills...
...black-and-white world he inherited all but decreed his failure. The youngest of five children, whose father abandoned the family shortly after his birth in rural Georgia, Jackie was taken, along with his siblings, by their mother Mallie from the segregated South to Pasadena, Calif. But Jim Crow restrictions existed there too. His elementary school transcript contained a curt note about the young boy's probable future: "Gardener." Jackie's extraordinary athletic abilities--in football, basketball, baseball and track--won the cheers of the same townspeople who would not allow him to swim in the municipal pool...
...have no intention of rushing out to buy shoes that would cause me both physical and financial damage. Let DuPont and her reflexologists take note: there is at least one potential customer out here who will be sticking with her comfortable flats, no matter what's in vogue. CATHERINE CROW Cambridge, Mass...
What best symbolizes black progress--and white resistance--in America is the march. Haggard slaves marched north, using moonlight and north-facing moss to get to freedom. Years later, regiments of blacks again marched north, this time in the great migration, drawn by jobs and away from Jim Crow. In the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian...