Word: inks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon the fad faded in red ink and rancor. The same black community leaders who would urge Paramount Pictures to suppress Ralph Bakshi's "racist" film Coonskin (and, a decade later, Sam Fuller's White Dog) were condemning blaxploitation as image suicide. Moreover, white liberal producers, reluctant to portray black men as rapists and dopers, failed to come up with alternatives. "If you're not working," says Actor Stan Shaw (Roots II), "you don't "get better...
...INK TRUCK by William Kennedy; Viking; 278pages...
...bonuses of such success is that a writer is virtually assured that anything he writes-or has written-will be published. The Ink Truck is Kennedy's first novel. Dial brought it out in 1969, a time when even the most unbuttoned fiction could not compete against reality. There was more than enough anarchy on the front pages, and few critics took notice of a book about a journalist's buffoonish terror tactics during a newspaper strike. Read then, The Ink Truck might easily have been mistaken for a political statement about the freedom-loving workers' battle...
...studies. Concerned, the Corporation successfully petitioned the legislature to draft a law preventing innkeepers from advancing credit to students. And in 1823, 43 of 70 students in the graduating class were expelled for a combination of discipline problems including bonfires in the Yard, cannonballs dropped from windows, strategically placed ink buckets, and class disturbances...
Much of the league's red ink flows from lavish salaries to star players. The Express signed Quarterback Steve Young to a lifetime contract reputed to be worth $36 million. Young's paychecks are already proving to be a strain on Express Owner William Oldenburg, who heads a San Francisco company that arranges loans for construction projects. Oldenburg is in financial trouble, and his team is up for sale...