Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking. The first half of the film is a jumble of pointless anecdotes that fail to pull into a compelling narrative scheme or establish characters of any dimension. The boys squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness...
These are good issues to make a movie about; most American families have faced them in one form or another. They transcend race and locale, and are rendered more poignant when you remember that the Carmichael kids are going to have to face prejudice...
Home: Currier House and Carmichael...
...have several things in common: fantastic sexual gambits and a kind of Lewis Carroll flouting of the laws of time. Plotted like a mystery for late-page plot twists, it casts Paul as a tap-dancing gay, Jesus as a brilliant businessman. Drawing on the work of historian Joel Carmichael, Vidal argues that when Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple, he was destroying a sophisticated Roman financial structure that controlled banking in the Middle East -- and thereby sealing his own fate...
Boston University's Community Service Society and Harvard's Phillips Brooks House (PBH) are teaming up to co-sponsor the project, which was organized by Tufts' Leonard Carmichael Society...