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Jadine is a modern, beautiful young woman whose atypical life is a product of Valerian's charity. She has been educated at the Sorbonne and became a socialite in Paris, top model with her "mink eyes" on the cover of Elle. She bridges the gap between the white employers and her aunt and uncle, but the only mystical images which this gap produces are stereotypes. The other native women who periodically work for the Streets watch Jadine closely. They call her "fast-ass": she calls them all Mary because "all the baptized black women on the island had Mary among...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

Celebrations of St. Patrick's Day across the country yesterday included green grits and green mink as well as the more common parades and beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nation Celebrates St. Pat's Day | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago wore a green mink coat as she led that city's annual parade, which tied with St. Paul, Minn, as the second-largest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nation Celebrates St. Pat's Day | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...Sydney, the family butler, procures the family pistol and investigates. He reappears with his quarry: a ragged black apparition in Rastafarian dreadlocks. Valerian offers the man a drink and invites him to eat the collapsed remains of a souffle. Jadine, Sydney's visiting niece, stares at him with mink eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Diamond | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

Nancy Reagan was resplendent, wearing in four days dresses by Designers Bill Blass, Adolfo, and James Galanos and a mink coat given to her by her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: America's Incredible Day | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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