Word: baraka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last night's screening of the movie "Baraka," a film that portrays cultural and natural images from around the world, kicked off the weeklong celebration of the U.N., co-sponsored by the International Relations Council (IRC), the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) and the Woodbridge Society of International Students...
...ever diplomatic, pro-Western Hassan helped facilitate a number of key Middle East negotiations, including a visit to Jerusalem in 1977 by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. A deft handler of vastly different factions in his country, among them Islamic militants, the charismatic ruler was said by Moroccans to have baraka, or blessedness. Hassan, who had been ill for several years, will be succeeded by his son Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed...
...third renaissance was the Black Arts Movement, which extended from the mid-'60s to the early '70s. Defining itself against the Harlem Renaissance and deeply rooted in black cultural nationalism, the Black Arts writers imagined themselves as the artistic wing of the Black Power movement. Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and Sonia Sanchez viewed black art as a matter less of aesthetics than of protest; its function was to serve the political liberation of black people from white racism. Erected on a shifting foundation of revolutionary politics, this "renaissance" was the most short-lived of all. By 1975, with the Black...
...Criticism is going to come all over. It's going to come from people like ((writer Amiri)) Baraka who felt I was too bourgeois to do this film. And it's going to come from the other side: people who believe that I'm a racist and antiwhite and anti-Semitic and preach hatred...
Leland criticizes Jesse Cohen for not conforming to her idea, as well as Baraka's description, of what Lula (not Lulu, as appears in the review) should be. This is indeed a valid criticism, and I, as director, made a conscious decision in casting Cohen, precisely because I believed she best fit the Lula of my vision of the play I wanted to put on. But Leland doesn't criticize me for a casting error, if she believes it to be such, but instead, launches into a fairly vicious personal attack on Cohen for not being a thirty year...