Word: calms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crammed into a holding cell, an informal rap session about how to defend Black rights lets the various voices in the community be heard: the pacifist preacher, the young hotheads and derisive random riffraff (played by screenwriter Melvin Van Peebles, the director's father). Above it all rises the calm authority of Huey Newton and his persuasive argument for Black self-defense...
Fernald said he remained calm, but then passed out on the library floor next to the stacks. He was revived minutes later by library security guard David Muir...
...hard on me, but she motivates me," Nyasha says. "She's the calm one, and I'm the out-there' one. When people meet us, they think she's older...
...mind." The paranoid intensity of this cell has to be experienced to be believed. Another is a video piece: the projected image of a mime, with a chair suspended from the ceiling behind it and a green wax head on the chair. A disembodied voice, calm and in control, first tells the mime, "Shit in your hat," which he pretends to do, and then runs through a set of other instructions, which are obediently acted out; the result is an effective metaphor of weakness and humiliation...
Judge Lance Ito spent the day meeting with distraught jurors privately in an attempt to calm down the panel so that the trial can continue...