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...looked so comfortable up there on the runway, is that from years of experience? Well, I was lucky because I had the two best dresses in the show. They were long black tuxedo dresses. If I had to wear transparent black lace that would not have been so easy! (See pictures from backstage at New York's Fashion Week...
...show this time? I think he wanted to show that he is working for women, he is at their service, if you like. I like the fact that he didn't try to disguise me or make fun of me in some way, by making me wear black nail polish like the other models. I was wearing my own kind of makeup and my own hairstyle. I just went like myself. It was a charming message in the middle of a very sophisticated collection. (See the top 10 fashion moments...
Voice of a Black...
Michael Kinsley's essay "God Is Black" made a strong argument that the presence and voices of James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman have influenced how America hears the voice of truth and authority [Jan. 26]. But there were others who set the stage. We cannot ignore the influence of Southern-raised black televangelists. And even more so, James Weldon Johnson's famous poem "The Creation," which is written in the black idiom: And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely-- I'll make me a world. Paul Moore, NORTH SAN JUAN, CALIF...
Kinsley's column is a prime example of why liberals get such bad press. It's utter nonsense to posit that being black or being privy to the African-American experience somehow endows Freeman or Jones with voice-of-God (VOG) vocal cords. Their riveting vocal abilities are not racially based. NFL commentators have had the VOG sound, as did the late movie-trailer announcer Don LaFontaine and Robert Mitchum on the "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" TV spots. Those guys were white. Kinsley should do a bit more research before he puts his fingertips to the keyboard...