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The difference in The Blue Tower is that -- for once -- a brown-faced character is portrayed on the screen as a universal Everyman figure and not forever marginalized as an 'ethnic' with special-issue problems.
George Heymont: Two Indian Indie Gems: The Blue Tower and Third Person Singular Number George Heymont 2011
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The difference in The Blue Tower is that -- for once -- a brown-faced character is portrayed on the screen as a universal Everyman figure and not forever marginalized as an 'ethnic' with special-issue problems.
George Heymont: Two Indian Indie Gems: The Blue Tower and Third Person Singular Number George Heymont 2011
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There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Friars
A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say Jerry Bowyer 2011
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There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Friars
A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say Jerry Bowyer 2011
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At an Arizona elementary school, a mural of the school's multi-racial children has been the target of vicious, racist attack...because it showed brown-faced and black-faced children in the mural like the ones in the actual school.
From Twitter 06-03-2010 e_moon60 2010
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We also admired the dangerous-looking, brown-faced and green-horned mythical creature that guarded the door to the brothers 'home.
On Germany's Fairy-Tale Trail Rhea Wessel 2010
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In one cell he came upon a condemned prisoner, “a brown-faced, gray-bearded old scalawag, who, in a frolicsome mood, had massacred three women and a batch of children—his own property, I believe.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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In one cell he came upon a condemned prisoner, “a brown-faced, gray-bearded old scalawag, who, in a frolicsome mood, had massacred three women and a batch of children—his own property, I believe.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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When we returned to the main house, Jennie was still on the porch, sliding colored beads onto string for necklaces with three little girls, one brown-faced little boy and two moms.
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I met her in the chapel there, a sad, brown-faced creature in an old black dress.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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