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...Breeders started out as a side project helmed by Kim Deal, bassist for the late-'80s college rock band the Pixies. If in 1992 you were a teenage girl who considered attending the Rhode Island School of Design as a less adventurous alternative to the expatriate life in Amsterdam, odds are pretty good that you were into their first album, "Pod." Nobody even pretended to establish a foothold on the lyrics (Example: "She's in a kitchen in Kentucky/ And she thinks she's Peter Pan") but the cover art made it reasonably clear the vegetable of the title referred...
...insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense of the new film is its persistent vaunting of intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote the black critic Theophilus Lewis, reviewing a 1931 Micheaux talkie, "Daughter of the Congo," in the New York Amsterdam News. "Even if the picture possessed no other defects, this artificial association of nobility with lightness and villainy with blackness would be enough to ruin...
...friend Audrey Hepburn, who had been UNICEF's goodwill ambassador, asked me to be co-host of the Danny Kaye International Children's Awards in Amsterdam and to take part in a UNICEF press conference. I told Audrey I didn't know much about UNICEF. She replied that all the reporters wanted to talk about was movies. She was right; they did want to talk about movies. But Audrey wouldn't let them. She was passionate and eloquent about the needs of children, and she wanted me to get involved as well. That was my moment of epiphany: I wanted...
...anyone in the theater world knows, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is cursed. Legend has it that on the opening night back in 1606, the boy playing Lady Macbeth died of fever before the show could open. In 1672 for a production in Amsterdam, the actor playing Macbeth apparently used a dagger that accidentally didn’t retract and killed the actor portraying Duncan during a performance...
...direct connection between marijuana use and hard drug use is that many drug dealers who sell marijuana also sell hard drugs. This means marijuana users can often get hard drugs with ease. If the government were to separate the two markets by decriminalizing marijuana, as has been done in Amsterdam, it would give marijuana users less access to—and temptation to use—hard drugs...