Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor may have blown the reality of both viewpoints out of proportion, but he did drive his point home. Time and time again darker women have been pushed aside as the myth of lighter-equals-better gets played out. Even in the movie, the dark-skinned president of the college was married to a lighter-skinned woman. Lee proved that beauty can be found in short, natural afros and brown eyes as well as in long, straight hair and blue-colored contact lenses...
...Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that lasted three centuries, when even the alphabet was lost, and then a long, slow crawl back up to the light...
...Washington correspondent, she joined Newsday and then Newsweek. Since last April, TIME has become the fortunate recipient of her investigative skills and long experience in tracking the activities of U.S. drug enforcers. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen and the War America Can't Win, her book about the dark world of illegal drugs, will be published by Viking Penguin later this year. For this week's stories, Shannon drew upon the scores of sources she has accumulated through the years, including combatants on both sides of the drug war throughout the hemisphere. Says Shannon: "The only kind of sources...
Inman-Ebel's clinical tone enrages some people. "What's wrong with forward tongue carry?" says John Tinkler, who teaches history of the English language at the University of Tennessee. "It doesn't sound like Indy-goddam-ana." Tinkler is a vast, round man with silver hair, dark skin and flashing, protuberant eyes. He describes his accent as "educated rural Southern," the language college graduates in his family have spoken for generations. He wishes Inman-Ebel would attack the stereotypes and the attitudes, instead of the accent. "She's teaching people how not to talk like folks," he says. "That...
Iwas walking in the dark and mysterious tunnels of Cabot House one day when an old friend of mine accosted...