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Scotto could be the D.W. Griffith of musical shorts, not so much for his story-telling vigor as for his love of racial stereotypes. He bedecks Armstrong in a leopard-skin tunic, harem pants and body glitter; he urges his black actors to grimace grotesquely and gives them fearful patois to spout ("I run until I's black in de face," says a man fleeing a Latin American revolt in the 1931 Be Like Me). He was not alone in caricaturing African Americans. Crosby, whose crooner inflections owed much to black musicians, wears blackface in the 1932 Dream House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MAKERS OF MELODY | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

Schlossberg's fliers, for a class taught byProfessor of English Marjorie Garber, feature asketch from the 1950s of a woman wearingleopard-skin clothing, standing in a living roomdecorated entirely in leopard-skin prints...

Author: By Anne C. Krendl, | Title: Fliers, Photos Lure Students to Classes | 2/3/1995 | See Source »

...toddler in leopard-skin coat and hat stirred in his stroller. The Puerto Rican team hurriedly consulted as to how to wear their capes. A huge circle -- the whole town, it seemed -- formed in the street to greet the Olympic flame. And then planes colored the sky, bells tolled through a dream of a blue afternoon, the sun set behind the mountains amid a spangle of fireworks, and the opening ceremonies of the 16th Olympic Winter Games were officially under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: At The Starting Gate | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

WORLD: Now, the leopard-skin revolutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: May 21, 1990 | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...knew she was getting married, and we thought we'd like to do something for her," Ayre said. So for the mere price of $80, David danced for Dias and shed his clothes to the beat--all the way down to a pair of leopard-skin bikini underwear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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