Word: badass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whoopi. But Whoopi Johnson just doesn't cut it." (You figure that one out; her name then was Caryn Johnson.) So she rummaged among her family names and came up with some mixed-blood Goldbergs she swears are back tsn't break character, he's still a badass, but now he's in Anne Frank's attic, thoroughly shaken, explaining that she and her family hid there from the Nazis, in silence, for month after month, and that even at the end, Anne still believed that humanity was basically good...
...seek cures ranging from ritual maleness a la Iron John to shedding their ties and common sense in reckless crusades for adventure. The central character, played by film actor Griffin Dunne, reacts to a busted marriage and a Florida income tax problem by turning to a trio of cliche badass pursuits: cross-country wandering (the show's sole set is a highway), crime (involving, naturally, suitcases of white powder) and moviemaking. Of these, Korder presents the cinema as the most corrupt; it takes an impromptu murder to get the antihero really launched as a mogul...
...Peebles leaves Sweetback, metaphor for the "Black Community," no one to depend upon but himself--and the protagonist seems to prefer it that way. He is the original tough, self-reliant, badass Black...