Word: tulia
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...Last year, the British designer sent male models down the runway with prosthetic breasts under their cashmere sweaters. In Sydney, there was a more subtle shift. "So many of those traditional stereotypes have been broken down now, and men can dress with a lot more freedom," says Zambesi's Tulia Wilson. Known for strongly individual, layered looks for women, the label has cleverly adapted that staunchness for men, whether masculinizing a dark hummingbird print into a tailored French-cuffed shirt, or adding a pink collar to a vintage rugby jersey. "It's that traditional gentleman's aesthetic," says designer Dayne...
RECOMMENDED. That DRUG CONVICTIONS of 38 people, almost all black, be overturned; in Tulia, Texas. After hearings that raised doubts about the uncorroborated testimony of a white undercover officer, Thomas Coleman--who bragged to the press about pulling suspects from their beds in July 1999--a judge strongly urged that all charges be dropped. A final determination will be made by a higher court. Coleman no longer works in law enforcement...
...district attorney, on behalf of Yul Bryant, a black man who was arrested after apparently being misidentified and whose charges have been dropped. Some of the cases are being appealed, the Department of Justice has been alerted to the problem, the media is on the case and Tulia finds itself in the spotlight - a spotlight that has led to all kinds of grandstanding, manipulation, alliance-forming and hammy acting. In other words, Tulia has become Hollywood. Helping get national publicity focused on the situation is Randy Credico, an activist from New York. Credico also happens to be a middle-aged...
...Credico is in charge of marketing the scandal, then Gary Gardner, a white Tulia farmer, is the cause's publicist. Gardner alienated most of the rest of the white population of Tulia when he spoke out against what he perceived as the racism of the community after the first drug-bust trials last year. Now, when reporters come to town to cover Tulia's controversy, he helps set up interviews with the black residents, almost all of whom are on probation or related to someone who was arrested in the sting. Gardner is also a comic-relief supporting player, since...
...Amid all the noise and show business is the truth. Tulia is a town with a deep racial divide, and only now is the white majority of being forced to stare into it. It's hard to see anything, though, with the spotlight shining so bright and hot. And that's the way it is in Hollywood. Hooray...