41.   Looking across a hall of mostly black faces, he recounted growing up in Russell, Kan., a community with few blacks.

42.   Maybe it was because they had black faces.

43.   Minutes later, NBC and ABC repeatedly panned their cameras and picked out the few black faces in the overwhelmingly white audience when Gen. Colin Powell spoke.

44.   Next to the stain was a bloodied black face mask popular among some fighters.

45.   Not a black face, other than mine, was in sight.

46.   On TV he charmed the local populace, intrigued by a significant champion with a black face.

47.   Other than Dupree and some of his fellow musicians, New Orleans has about as many black faces as Idaho.

48.   Racial disclaimers aside, this is their way of saying they want black faces that mirror everyone.

49.   Sweating with the effort, he was herding sheep with black faces out of an ancient stone byre and into a mucky pool the size of a hot tub.

50.   That allows them a program that would otherwise be characterized as bald racism were it not decorated with a self-loathing black face.