Word: whiter
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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While searching for a Bollywood film at an Indo-Pak store my eye was drawn to shelves of Fair & Lovely products that promised a brighter future with whiter skin. A series of commercials for Pond’s White Beauty showed a mini soap opera of dark-skinned Miss World, Priyanka Chopra, lightening her skin to attract her ex-boyfriend, Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan. South Asian matrimonial ads posted on the wall advertise that the bachlorette is “fair,” and bachelor ads usually clarify that this is a quality they are looking for; this...
...some, it’s more complicated. Until recently, popular African-American magazines like Ebony featured bleaching products to lighten dark skin, and they are still popular in African-American grocery stores in addition to Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian ones. Celebrities of color like Sammy Sosa have become whiter over time. This year, Senate majority leader Harry Reid brought attention to his belief that President Barack Obama was able to be elected as an African-American for his light skin. While his comment was certainly a political faux pas, a study by the University of Chicago?...
...Since then a steady stream of voice recordings purportedly from bin Laden have surfaced, but very few videos. The last video was in September 2007, and showed him looking much the same as before 9/11, perhaps a bit more gaunt and with a whiter beard. The recordings could have been faked to inspire Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, but a jihadi source in Islamabad tells TIME that he heard from a trusted but secondhand source that bin Laden was alive as recently as two years ago. "Since then," he says, "nothing...
...really listen to much. I've got my own personal studio in my house, and I've been doing a new album for the last year. Slowly. I love, primarily, early bands, folks like Procol Harum. I think one of the best songs I've ever heard is "A Whiter Shade of Pale." Fabulous song...
...small semicircle of easels arrayed behind his lectern, reinforcing key phrases. Hybels' preaching is economical, precise of tone and gesture. Again by custom, he was dressed in black, which accentuated his pale complexion, blue eyes and hair, once Dutch-boy blond but now white. Indeed, if there is a whiter preacher currently running a megachurch, that man must glow. (See the top 10 religion stories...