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...often given over to such "frivolous items" as women's pancake contests or stories about cheerleaders. Added to the station's own antiwomen programs, NOW charges, are commercials that reinforce "sex stereotypes" by showing women spending their days happily waxing floors or getting their laundry whiter than white...
With a protest lodged, the $200 prize money was withheld, and the $14,250 sale was halted. For the moment Big Mac-or Jeep, or whatever it is-was settled on a suburban farm, turning whiter and whiter...
...career. He was the king of the rock and roll sax, his studio contributions stretching back to the Coasters' hit "Yakety Yak." His last album, Live at Fillmore West (Atco), was his best by far, despite the questionable inclusion of such songs as "Whole Lotta Love" and "Whiter Shade of Pale." With a phenomenal rhythm section driving him along, Curtis displays his prodigious control of the instrument in the essential Stax-Volt rhythm and blues vein...
...have indoctrinated him with this naive reverence of people with "all the right things" behind their names and other basic American middle class values, as well as those particular perversions with which blacks have buttressed those values, such as an internal pecking order based on color-the whiter the righter. Williams says that "King himself apparently had some color hang-up... Of King's personal attitude towards women with dark skin, Person B (Williams does not further identify this source) told me: 'Martin often said that he was willing to fight and die for black people, but was damned...
...clouds, the lower contoured in shades of sand and earth grasses and greens-that at any moment they will be released in a dry quiet rain falling to the appropriate surface-the color lost in the blue sky, lost onto the vision we see them, the clouds now whiter and still moving the sun now higher the light, now above the mountains, has moved from eclipse to sharper distinction, less peaceful stasis pinon-you smell it as everything around you clouds and light moving across the mesa the highway lost as a thirsting arroyo, brief and fearful potential...