Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economics is only part of the story. For many African Americans, black colleges promise a level of academic and social support that mostly white campuses cannot match. "Psychologically, a black student is going to feel better about himself at a black college," says Barry Beckham, editor of The Black Student's Guide to Colleges. At schools such as Dillard, Fisk, Morehouse and Howard, black students say they feel a surge of self-esteem directly traceable to the experience of being the majority race on campus...
...WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, March 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Oprah Winfrey, in the days before Optifast, plays one of seven women enduring the trials of tenement life in this two-part TV movie. The talk-show superstar was also co- executive producer...
...singers' soul-saving urgency flows from the Adventist teaching that the Second Coming could occur virtually any day now. Tenor Mark Kibble, who devised the distinct six-part sound, scans the drug scene and other manifest modern evils and concludes, "We are truly living in the last days before Christ comes. Because of that, we are more intense in showing people they need not be subject to this world...
...part, Valentino was playing the diplomat. "It's a great joy for me to show in Paris," he said. "I'll certainly still show in Rome, but couture is my metier, and I learned it in Paris. But I always keep my Italian accent when speaking French, and so do my clothes." By the time some State Department of Fashion has worked out all the coded signals and careful contradictions in that dispatch, the dust will have settled. There is always a lot of it around during fashion season anyway, especially when the clothes aren't good enough to clear...
...Athens the Prime Minister fought back by accusing his political and "foreign" opponents of conspiring to overthrow him. Looking drawn and nervous, Papandreou defended himself in a 15-minute televised address to the nation. He dismissed Koskotas' "despicable allegations" as part of an "unprecedented political conspiracy" aimed at destroying "Papandreou, the government, democracy and the independence of the country" to restore a "regime of dependence and subjugation." In fact, declared Papandreou, "not a trace of the mud flying from all sides touches me." He went on to claim that he had spared no effort in making the "truth shine." Finally...