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...These is the niggers' seats!" the little lady in the strange outfit started screaming. "The Government gave us these seats!" I was startled at her tone and her statement-no man's land seats were not regarded as back of the bus. "The President said that these are the niggers' seats!" I expected her to start fighting at any moment. Evidently the bus driver did, too, because he was driving faster and faster. "I'm going to take you down to the station, buddy," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Carolina: Growing Up Black in the '40s | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...with a lavish and seductive canvas of two swans, heraldically conjoined at the heads, floating on a gray-green field of water and creamy lilies. But younger painters tend to settle for something lighter, stylish in a glitzy way and openly bird-brained. Beside Robert Kushner's Same Outfit, 1979, Dufy might look like Poussin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quirks, Clamors and Variety | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...station applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late December for permission to sell its license, Stone said, adding that he expected BOSS Communications, a Boston-based outfit, to take over...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: WCAS Owners, Broadcasters Reach Pact, Will Stay on Air | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

More expensive than the nutrients is the electricity needed to run such an outfit. Without natural sunlight, expensive high intensity lamps must be purchased. When the San Fransisco warehouse's electricity bills jumped 1500 per cent the police became suspicious, leading to the DEA's raid on the stash...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Hydroponics for Pot | 2/11/1981 | See Source »

...Queen," a tawdry sexpot who moonlights as a hooker, and a Black deaf-mute muscleman named Swallow. When this troupe rolls into Pirhanhas they become the way out for an idealistic, accordion-playing farmboy. Cico (Fabio Junior), who fears an existence rooted in the sleepy backlands and joins the outfit with his pregnant young wife. The old pros and the innocents rattle together from one poor village to the next hawking the worldly pleasures of vaudeville to a public more likely to pay admission in melons than in cash...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: To the Brazilian Beat | 2/5/1981 | See Source »

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