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Word: southerners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pointed wisps of hair, a straight nose, and thin lips. Silhouettes of black figures are cut with rounded bumps for hair, or twisted plaits, with rounded noses, and large, often open-hanging lips. The figures look like neither real people nor caricatures, but like characters in some Southern plantation novel that takes itself quite seriously. The silhouette of a white man in a three piece suit and fluffy tie stands under a tree with his hands resting on the shoulder of a young white boy, who holds a flower and looks up toward the sky. A big-bottomed black girl...

Author: By Velma M. Mcewen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Collective Unconscious `Reconfigured' in Black and White: Kara Walker | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

Texas freshman Erin Aldrich won the high jump on Saturday with a finish of 1.94 meters. Southern Methodist junior Kajsa Bergqvist placed second, vaulting 1.91 meters...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gyoffry Leaps Through NCAAs, Secures Third Place in Nation | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Harvard finished out EIVA play in fifth place and missed an invitation to the four-team postseason tournament. The Crimson will travel to southern California for five matches during spring break before heading to Dartmouth for the Ivy League tournament...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Volleyball Roughs Up Sacred Heart | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...square. Clinton has the urgency of a talk-show host. Or guest ("I want everyone to want me"--today on Jerry Springer). He is the first boyfriend (rather than father) figure in the White House since Jack Kennedy. Bye-bye, Poppy; hello, Elvis. That was the cue for the Southern beau-hunk to go on strutting his sex appeal, occasionally swiveling his ideology and forever crooning his ballads: "For I can't help/ Falling in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Others in Primary Colors tried to steer clear of real-life inspiration; John Travolta became a Bill Clinton clone. It took weeks to master the familiar vocal cadence and body language, but the feel-your-pain sincerity came easier. "The scary thing about this part is, take away the Southern accent and gray hair, and I don't respond that differently to people," he says, dunking a taquito into a lump of guacamole as he unwinds in his trailer after work. "I'm good at schmoozing and being very caring and tolerant, which is just what Clinton does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The People's Choice | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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