Word: trumps
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...telling federal agencies how to use Census data in monitoring civil rights compliance. Now, when data are tabulated for a compliance issue, there is a simple formula. People who check a single race never move from their boxes; in situations where at least two boxes are checked, minority trumps white, and one minority will trump another, depending on the issue for which data are being collected. Sure, the formula is an embrace of the old one-drop rule (one drop of black blood makes you black), but this retrograde remedy is an appropriate answer to backward thinking, and what could...
...hipper-than-thou ambiance, a disdain for the big system. While this is no bad thing in itself, the tone is often that of a convention of prissy elitists. The name of an obscure Polish animator is always on the lips, waiting to be played as a cultural trump card. "I'll raise you an Angolan documentary maker..." "I'll see your Indonesian cinematographer - and top it with my surprising taste for the subtext of the 'Ernest' movies...
...Friday night, I watched Miss Texas win, the woman who answered my "Would you sleep with Donald Trump?" question with the misinformed, "I think he's a little old for me." After it was over, the only thing I felt was that I'd wasted two valuable TV viewing hours, and that I was the only one who knew which state really...
...experience was not quite as glamorous as I had hoped. Last Friday's Donald Trump-run pageant took place in Gary, Ind., which meant it was short on the sophistication of Atlantic City and long on a really disturbing smell. Even worse, a new rule, designed to cut down on breast-augmentation surgery, allowed padding in the bikinis and dresses. It also turned out that I had been invited to judge the preliminaries, which meant that instead of sitting with Karen Duffy, Daniel Baldwin and Ernie (the black Ghostbuster) Hudson at Friday's live telecast of the finals, I spent...
Friday night, I watched Miss Texas win, the woman who answered my "Would you sleep with Donald Trump?" question with the misinformed, "I think he's a little old for me." After it was over, the only thing I felt was that I'd wasted two valuable TV viewing hours, and that I was the only one who knew which state really...