Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amistad, the story of a shipful of African slaves and their struggle for freedom, Stephen Spielberg pulls out all the stops, pouring on the pathos and the pity, spooning on the sympathy and drenching it all in melodrama. Spielberg has apparently decided to stop making films and instead to start performing "filmmaking." Despite a number of excellent performances, what could very well have been a poignant and emotional tale is so concertedly and self-consciously delivered as such that it just comes out muddied and misconceived. --Jon B. Dinerstein...
...acutely aware of the urgent need to have more women generally, and more African-American women specifically, on the Harvard faculty," says W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates...
There could be three black, female, tenured professors in the Faculty currently, if all of those Harvard offered tenure to accepted: namely, Gina C. Dent, now teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, and Nellie Y. McKay, who teaches African-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison...
...leap. But this strain of influenza, called H5N1, though highly virulent in birds, has never before been known to attack humans. Since no human can count on having a natural immunity to what is essentially a bird virus, we could prove especially vulnerable to infection. First discovered in South African terns in 1961, H5N1 has already raced through poultry farms in southern China, killing caged fowl by the thousands...
...animated feature plopped directly (and predictably) onstage. But director and costume designer Julie Taymor wanted to create a different kind of fascination. Through puppetry, shadow figures and masks, Taymor makes her Lion King--at the renovated New Amsterdam Theater (see above)--the master of a powerful realm, ancient and African, full of ritual, magic...