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...authority was white. It was frustrating. We'd get a white politician that would come in and promise everything, and then when they won, they didn't know you." He is receiving friends at his business. His tone is soft, almost apologetic, but his small handlebar mustache and his pink tie and matching handkerchief suggest a healthy self-image. Some wonder whether perhaps he is too moderate. His response may relieve those who resent his judicially mandated rise, not to mention its newfangled engineering. "I'm only one person on the board," he says. "I've got to work within...
...third below the pace of earlier recoveries. Much worse, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based outplacement firm, counted 615,000 layoffs announced by corporations in 1993 -- a monthly rate actually double the figure for 1990, the year the recent recession began. The count rose further, to 193,000 pink slips, in the first three months of this year, up 13% from early...
...kind oflife-and-death urgency that's hard to replicatenow," notes New York Times Opinion columnist FrankRich Jr. '71 "It's such a different world now.It's almost apples and oranges."Crimson File PhotoTop: Soldiers march in Boston's 1969Veterans' Day parade. Bottom: Students during lastyear's Commencement hold pink balloons reading'Lift the Ban,' a reference to the military'sformer policy on gays...
...Commencement, however, the protests wereless forceful. With "Lifts the Ban" stickers ontheir mortarboards and pink and black balloons inhand, the students listened respectfully as Powellspoke...
...sploshing -- the erotic act of dumping a plate of food on your loved one. "When I hear about something like this," he says, "at first I'm shocked. And suddenly I feel very healthy." Waters' films have often made viewers feel healthy -- by default. The 1972 underground smash Pink Flamingos was about the "Filthiest People Alive" and climaxed with an act of coprophagy that still shocks; a Flamingos screening in Florida was busted last year. The film was so raw and assaultive in its mondo-trasho fashion -- a prime example of cinema sploshite -- that it made viewers feel...