Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...work is certainly meant to be experimental, and the set is powerful in that it places the audience in a sterile, foreign world. The set consists of three lamps, a piano, and a bed. Black plastic, splattered with red paint, stretches across the floors, the walls, and the furniture. A clear plastic sheet serves as the patient's bedsheets. The set, probably unintentionally, reinforces our distance from Alex and inhibits our empathy...
...appointment of Brewer, who is Black, raises the number of minority faculty members at the Law School...
...Pentagon squanders billions on such expensive duds as the M-1 Abrams tank, the Bradley fighting vehicle and the Advanced Tactical Fighter. Meanwhile, the U.S. has by far the highest rate of infant mortality among the industrial democracies, and the rate of infant mortality among Black Americans exceeds those of several developing countries...
...while the recently-elected President of the Harvard Law Review, Barack H. Obama, called the announcement an "encouraging sign," Tynia D. Richard, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, expressed reservations about the selection of a male Black professor...
...think it's nice for the sake of diversity," Richard said. "However, there is the problem that the Law School has six Black male professors and no Black female professors...