Word: demming
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...gospel-tinted voice in a propulsive rhythmic groove, she proceeds to bend the blues, rehabilitate some standards (by Simon and Garfunkel as well as by Duke Ellington) and scamper through a couple of her own intriguing compositions. Simply Natural may fall an inch short of her spectacular last CD, Dem Bones, but that's no insult. Cook can cook. --By Daniel Okrent
...headache") and worries that it will give them the notion to vote. One Negro layabout, who has lyingly implicated a fellow black in a murder case so as to ingratiate himself with his white boss, preens in a dialogue intertitle: "Here I is 'mong da whi' fo'ks, while dem other niggahs hide in the woods." He is surrounded by white men and, in a grisly shot, imagines himself lynched. At the climax, a white man attempts to rape a light-skinned black woman, who is revealed to be ... his own daughter...
...them like parentheses. Is a confrontation brewing? One young reveler reaches into his car and turns up his stereo. The voice of Elephant Man, the latest local ragga star, blares out, heavy with attitude and thick with patois: "Badman nah run from police inna shootout/Whole crew a government see dem pon di lookout..." The youth smiles at the cops and keeps dancing...
CHARLIE NORWOOD G.O.P. Rep. cuts patients'-rights deal with W. Dem pals squawk. Jealous because...
...Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal existence and rooted like mad for “Dem Bums” to outshine their pretentious Manhattan neighbors. When the team left, Brooklyn’s spirit of resistance perished, and it soon became just another borough. The word “Brooklyn” had originally come from the Dutch word for “Broken Land...