Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unprecedented act, three Cambridge police officers have filed suits with the state's anti-discrimination commission charging that they were discriminated against on the basis of their skin color...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) is expected to take three months to deliberate the cases of Black officers James Hite and Myles Lawton, and white officer Sgt. Edward Hussey, all three of whom were suspended for what they claim to be specialized treatment due to their skin color...
...after the culprit, little Dewitt Jr., was found hidden away with a cache of skin magazines, Dewitt felt it was time for a little parental firmness. Medieval torture seemed appropriate, but perhaps might affect the boy's development. Capital punishment was out for the same reason. Not that Dewitt is predisposed towards an antipathetic view of youth; rather, simply, that he hates kids...
...gastronomic long march through China, this visitor can report that all the answers are true. There is indeed wonderful food, as well as some that is terrible, with much more that is merely mediocre. For every delectable experience, like a dinner of impeccable Peking duck with its glassily crisp skin folded into delicate crepes, there were several depressing meals of bland, gristly meat and canned vegetables swimming in grease, ineptly served in drab and dirty dining rooms...
...pause over the ambiguous nuances of human behavior under pressure and the skill as a filmmaker to exploit them. No fictional film of recent years has more successfully explored the terrain around that crossroad where personal history and megahistory intersect. None has more persuasively placed us inside the skin of man caught in its conflicting, unpoliced traffic...