Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington, D. C., the main piece of this puzzle is undoubtedly Raymond Joshua. The film poses some fabulous questions. Can a man be justified in selling drugs if he has to support his family in the projects? Who is to blame for the overpopulation of young black men in America's jails today? The point that this film tries to drive home is that solutions to these problems require action, and action requires personal responsibility. Slam is recommended to anyone who wants to see how a great film can be made about a subject as complex as the struggle...
BECOMING VISIBLE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LESBIAN AND GAY LIFE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA...
...black, white or Asian. It just gets to a point where sampling culture, especially in my own work, I usually try to have the music act as a metaphor for plurality in general. And the music acts as a hypothetical space for all these different cultures of North America. I'm from New York. I live in Chinatown. You turn left the signs are in Hebrew, you turn right they're in Chinese, you go straight, they're in Spanish. And these are all cultures I'm into and I respect them. It's the whole situation of urban placement...
...world may or may not end in a nuclear conflagration. Phillip Morrison and Kosta Tsipis offer "Reason Enough to Hope: America and the World of the 21st Century," as they discuss arms control and global security and development. The talk is hosted by WBUR's Christopher Lydon. 5:30 p.m. Wong Auditorium, MIT Tang Center, 2 Amherst St. 253-5249. FREE...
...banking industry's least favorite senators is due for a promotion. With Al D'Amato's departure from the Beltway, Phil Gramm is in line for chairman of the House Banking Committee, and in spite of being a rabid free-marketeer (actually, because of it) Gramm stands between America's big banks and their dreams of deregulation...