Word: billingsley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though few could argue with Roots' impact, some scholars did find fault with its accuracy. "The manhood rite of the Mandinkan tribe took three or four years, not a couple of days," noted Dr. Andrew Billingsley, president of Morgan State University. "The series overdoes the black participation in the slave business, while it ignores the main slave traders-Europeans who came into African communities and rounded up people at gunpoint. The passage took longer, with 'seasoning' camps at the beginning, usually on an island off the African coast, and breeding camps...
Send your ballots to Barbara Billingsley (as Mrs. Cleaver), care of your local station. If we missed your favorite sport or neglected an event from a sport mentioned that you feel was particularly uneventful, send it along to the above address. Do it before midnight tonight...
Plain jeans are no longer adequate for even the plainest Jane: now the enthusiast can saunter into an expensive boutique like New York City's Billingsley, be interviewed by freelance Costume Designer Linda Sampson, hand her a battered set of denims and return two weeks later to pick up a sort of patchwork personality portrait, sewn together by Linda for $200 or so. Customers do not seem to worry that her interpretations of their personalities will be too freaky. "Basically," she says, "people will wear anything they can get away with." New Yorker Jann Johnson, 24, carries the idea...