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...some black forebears. Rogers also badly states that Hannibal Hamlin, who was Vice-President during the Civil War, "was undoubtedly of Negro ancestry." This topic is further discussed both in the old biography of Hamlin by his grandson and in a new one. Nobody disputes that Hamlin had jet-black hair and eyes, a broad nose, and very dark skin...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Black Blood in the White House | 1/18/1972 | See Source »

LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Anna Karina (an usherette) is the taunting, haunting object pursued by Nicol Williamson (a wealthy blind Englishman). The script was carefully adapted from Nabokov's exploration of jet-black humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Anna Karina (an usherette) is the taunting, haunting object pursued by a wealthy blind Englishman (Nicol Williamson). The script was carefully adapted from Nabokov's exploration of jet-black humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

Americans, he is of mixed Spanish and Indian blood, with liquid brown eyes, deeply bronze skin and thick, jet-black hair. He was born on an 80-acre farm in Arizona's Gila Valley near Yuma, where his parents tried to scratch a living from the arid desert earth. Chavez met racial hostility early in daily rock fights between Anglo and Chicano kids at the village school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LITTLE STRIKE THAT GREW TO LA CAUSA | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

Despite its title, the film's political segments are negligible. The satires of the TV war correspondent and of the men trying to disable themselves before their preinduction physicals are older than General Hershey. Its satires on sex are far more outrageous-and successful. In a jet-black humorous sequence, a Kennedy-assassination-conspiracy theorist strips a girl-and then marks her body for the entry points of the bullets. The film's peak is a mockery of pornographic films that could laugh Grove Press out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Promising, Promising | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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