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...handicapped. During the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, Roma were targeted by both sides. As a people they have suffered discrimination for centuries, and that suffering forms an important part of their music. More than a decade after the end of communism, things are changing. Responding to Taraf's burgeoning acclaim, a record company organized the group's first major concert in their native Romania. Pressure from Brussels on countries that want to join the European Union is improving Roma rights, slowly. Now, in fact, there is another worry. The aging of bands like Taraf and stars like Saban Bajramovic, some...
During his time as co-executive producer and director of “Home Improvement” and “Spin City,” both Cadiff and the shows received critical acclaim. In 1998, Cadiff won International Monitor Award for “best directing in a film originated from a television series” for an episode of “Spin City...
...wrote the book, a tale of three Chinese immigrants in search of the American dream, when she returned to Radcliffe in 1987 as a Bunting Institute Fellow. It immediately garnered critical acclaim and national attention at a time, Jen says, when multiculturalism became a popular theme in literature...
These days, Chow’s fashion sense garners the same acclaim as her lectures...
...acclaim of Griffith's masterwork made his virulent, derisive depiction of blacks all the more toxic - indeed, potentially epidemic. This was not simply a racist film; it was one whose brilliant storytelling technique lent plausibility and poignancy to images of crude Negroes in the Reconstruction Senate, and of a black man pursuing a white woman until, to save her virginity, she throws herself off a cliff. Viewers could believe that what they saw was not only historically but emotionally true. "Birth" not only taught moviegoers how to react to film narrative but what to think about blacks...