Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tallahassee will join a select group of cities in the world with magnetic laboratories, according to Jack Crow, director of the Florida consortium. Others include Moscow; Amsterdam; Grenoble, France, and cities in Poland and Japan...
...trench coat, standing beside three other young black men. That winter day in 1960, those four college students broke the segregation barrier by taking seats at F.W. Woolworth's downtown lunch counter. The sit-in shook the sleepy North Carolina city and ignited a nationwide movement to topple Jim Crow's walls. But Richmond says all he felt that day was "scared, scared, scared...
...Black struggle in America has historical basis and implication. Slavery and Jim Crow were practices that raped our families, our identities and our culture. Today, Blacks remain politically and economically oppressed. Poverty and violence have resulted from this systematic oppression. The gains of our ancestors seem to have been temporary...
...family over whether to hunker down under white racism or risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson seems haunted by specters of the brutal past -- as haunted as the U.S. still is by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. Director Lloyd Richards and a splendid cast give the script the production it deserves. That was not, alas, the Broadway fate in 1988 of Wilson's gripping but mishandled and commercially disastrous Joe Turner's Come and Gone...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...