Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style was a complex amalgam of hillbilly, blues, English ballad, and Hawaiian twang, all coupled with Rodger's own "blue yodel." A mixture of Swiss yodeling and the Negro falsetto, Rodgers took his voice past its highest note and let it break into "T for Texas, T for Tennessee," yodelling on the "T's" and then back into a normal range for the next line...
Aware that there had never been a successful Negro-hosted weekly network variety show, Flip began rehearsing more than a month early, working five and six hours a day on his singing and dancing. And he has mastered the deceptive ease of the first-class TV host. After appearing on last week's show, Perry Como reported: "Flip knows the things that make you comfortable...
...gonna BE no Ray Charles." Isabella then shrieks in the now-famous falsetto, "Chris gonna FIND Ray Charles." Since then Flip has sharpened and refined his style, which leans primarily on storytelling and body action rather than zingy punch lines. Even with all of the mugging, eye rolling and Negro dialect, Wilson's routines are inoffensive and totally devoid of racial rancor...
...gutfights of Body and Soul and The Harder They Fall. Moreover, Director Martin Ritt has staged some segments as if they were to be razzed at a Panther rally. One in particular, when a prayer is chanted for the Black Hope, must rank as the most patronizing view of Negro life since Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...
...surprisingly, 76 per cent of the black soldiers insist on being called "black" or "Afro-American," rejecting the traditional white label, Negro, which only six per cent accept...