Word: daring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried to envision Quayle, a chief spokesperson of the "traditional family values" agenda (an agenda in which African-Americans, other people of color and poor people have been subtly and not so subtly positioned as the enemy), my mind kept flashing back to Madonna and her film "Truth or Dare." Why was my mind forging this seemingly ridiculous connection between two people who in every way seem to deny just such a connection? The answer became clear soon enough: racial appropriation...
Those who dare "drop the flag" and resign from the gang face a brutal little ceremony called being "violated" or "jumped out." The precise ritual varies from gang to gang: sometimes each member of the gang, which may be several dozen strong, gets a free swing at the victim; other times four or five members are assigned to conduct the beating for a set amount of time. Whatever the punishment, the results are strikingly similar. "They give you a head-to-toe, which means you get your ass kicked," says Frank Perez, program director for the Chicago Commons Association gang...
...offensive and defensive weapons ever gathered on a basketball court. There are passers with 360 degrees vision like Bird (despite his creaky back), John Stockton and Magic. Chris Mullin and Jordan are excellent three-point shooters. No one in possession of his faculties and desirous of retaining them would dare drive down the lane into territory defended by Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone. Jordan and his Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen are tenacious open-court defenders. Then too there are Clyde Drexler and the Admiral, David Robinson. Twelfth man Christian Laettner will probably get a great view...
...Material Girl toys with racial and sexual images. Unlike other writers, hooks does not let Madonna's progressive activism obscure a through evaluation of her work. hooks is able to see how Madonna's videos and movies simply reinforce familiar prejudices. In a harsh, insightful critique of Truth or Dare, hooks asks difficult questions about Madonna's declared affection for the "outsider" cultures of Blacks and homosexuals...
...Almost. I think the public says, We want change, who can do it, and dare I take a chance? The message I want to send is that you have to take a chance, and here's your best chance...