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Appearing before the audience of New York policemen (one of whom brought his son to hear the lecture). Kelling summed up the advice he and Wilson had for policemen in one phrase: kick ass. So much for inculcating "a clear sense of the outer limit" of police authority...
...remained stonily silent as Kelling explained that he and Wilson had deliberately chosen a provocative phrase to stimulate discussion. I remember wondering if this was why people study for years, get PhD's and become instructors at Harvard--so they can tell cops to have their patrolmen go "kick ass...
...does not do well at Harvard and eventually leaves school. While the film clearly exposes some of the pressures on Blacks at Harvard, says Hudlin, many Black viewers, especially those who have "made it," were appalled, "There was a real feeling of Hey, why are you showing our ass" Some Black people feel we ought to be presenting only positive images of Black--Black people making it getting ahead," says Hudlin...
Several of the joca which evince Sainte Foy's attention to detail related to the liberation of prisoners. In one account a miraculous ass appeared out of nowhere on which the freed man rode off with his chains still dangling about him. The ass disappeared just as mysteriously. In another instance, she released a nobleman, Raymond, and as he was feeling through the door that she had opened for him, a woman holding out a pair of shoes suddenly appeared before him. She inquired if he was the same Raymond whom Sainte Foy had just delivered. She then handed...
...John Dolf) and Richie (Woodrow Thompson) stand out for their fast footwork, strong voices and sheer exuberance. And Val, played by Lois Englund, excels in the bawdy "Dance: Ten: Looks: Three," as the once ugly duckling who found strutting success through massive plastic surgery and silicon-induced "tits 'n ass...