Word: biko
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...anything as simple as political parties—he points out that the party he identifies with, the African National Congress, was banned at that time. Instead, his work focused on the human beings who were involved in politics. His series of drawings on the postmortem body of Stephen Biko serve as both a mournful elegy—“Elegy” is, in fact, the title of the piece—and an electrifying portrait of a secular martyr. Stopforth’s work is filled with this sort of synthesis—combining beautifully crafted pieces...
...DIED. DONALD WOODS, 67, outspoken white South African newspaper editor and apartheid foe whose friendship with black activist Steve Biko was depicted in the 1987 film Cry Freedom; in Sutton, England. When Biko died in police custody in 1977, Woods wrote a scathing editorial blaming the government, was banned from writing and fled to exile in England where he published a biography of Biko. DIED. FRED HOYLE, 86, controversial astrophysicist who in the 1940s coined the term "big bang" to deride the theory that an explosion formed the origin of the universe, a concept now widely accepted over his "steady...
Once, in an attempt to educate myself, I sat through Cry Freedom, a Hollywood, overly glamorized, overly processed version of the Stephen Biko story starring Denzel Washington. For two hours I stared at the screen expecting some massive revelation about the South African political, social and economic climate. I was sorely disappointed...
...nice with CompuServe employees. The world's largest Communist country came out in favor of privatization, while the underdog nation of Scotland voted to give itself a Parliament ? and at the behest of an English Prime Minister, too. There was a refreshing whiff of honesty in the air: Steven Biko's killers admitted their crime, and Pentagon Top Brass said Army sex scandals were a product of poor leadership. Even the doctor who once championed the disgraced weight-loss drug Redux ? and made a nice little profit in doing so ? came out and said his mea culpas...
...Biko family's anger indicates, while those who suffered under apartheid are eager to learn the truth, they're not necessarily prepared to forgive the people who did the system's dirty work...