Word: southerners
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...