Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fielding a nearly all-Black team, Thompson probably brought smiles to the faces of Jimmy "The Greek" and Al Campanis. On many courts across America, Blacks are always picked before whites simply because they're Black. It's a sad fact that the darker your skin, the higher you will get picked...
...direction of Editor Jane Pratt, 25, Sassy has published such articles as "The Truth About Boys' ; Bodies" and "How to Kiss." That is too much for the Moral Majority, which in the mid-1980s helped persuade a few retailers, including 7-Eleven stores, to stop selling Playboy and other skin mags. In its Liberty Report newspaper, the Moral Majority urges readers to write to Sassy's advertisers and demand that the firms boycott the magazine...
...Close and Personal" reports. "I think ABC has done a great job; we hope to do a great job too," says Michael Eskridge, NBC's executive vice president for the Olympics. "When you get right down to it, there are only so many ways to skin a cat." NBC officials have discussed, however, downplaying one oft criticized feature of ABC's Olympic coverage: the sometimes excessive home-country boosterism. Says Eskridge: "Everybody will do his best to keep our people from becoming a rooting section...
Before the race, the public address announcer, a man with leathery skin and bushy eyebrows who spoke with a Southern accent, said racing was the equivalent of war. If there were a war, he announced to the crowd of 10,000, the racers who were about to race would be at that war. But because there was no war, they were here, to race, giving their courage a test drive...
...fireball mushroomed upward, dozens of spectators suffered fatal burns. Some stood dazed and naked amid the chaos, clothes burned off and blackened skin hanging in shreds. At least six of the dead and 40 of the injured were U.S. citizens, mostly military personnel or their dependents. Nearly all of the remaining dead and injured were West Germans...