Word: walkerism
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...black people who were fully assimilable -- the sort of blacks who, as one critic notes, "could move into your neighborhood and not disturb you at all." Ghetto comedies of the '70s like Good Times did a better job of reflecting black life, but they were betrayed by buffoonery (Jimmie Walker's strutting J.J.). Roots, of course, brought the black experience to a wider audience than any other show before or since, but its popularity, the documentary notes, came only by making slavery acceptable for prime time -- "transforming a national disgrace into an epic triumph of the family and the American...
...seems a long way from the rocker who scandalized the world by admitting he had experimented with LSD, although there's no denying his repeated run-ins with the law over marijuana. Whether McCartney has given up that habit is debatable. He admits to only one vice: drinking Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch and Classic Coke. "Four, and I'm anybody's," he jokes to friends...
...Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...time we graduated, my only connection toRadcliffe was though Coggeshall, a smalloff-campus house on Walker Street, which I sharedwith 15 other women, mostly seniors. Several ofus--Nancy Wexler, Ellen Hawkes, Susan McCrenskyand others--struggled through our theses togetherin Coggeshall's basement typing room. We wrote andrevised and polished our manuscripts as earlyLinda Ronstadt played on the radio...
...Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...