Word: depth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PERHAPS the Rodney King verdict most vividly reveals the entrenchment of institutionalized racism and the depth of racial prejudice in America. King's trial demonstrates the continued effectiveness of racial stereotypes in both delegitimizing legal processes and altering individual perceptions...
...phrase "black musical" usually means either a gospel rafter-rattler or a nightclub evening of raunch and funk, typically highlighted by frenzied tap dancers and some enormous female singer with a voice like a howitzer. There have been exceptions that accorded blacks roles of dignity and depth (the richest emotionally, Dreamgirls, ironically was crafted by whites). But the norm is jumping and jiving, as in the new Five Guys Named Moe and the amiable gumbo of jubilant New Orleans sounds The High Rollers...
...team's talent lies in its depth and experience. "We don't have a very strong kicking game but our fowards are very strong. Our scrumming is quite good and our wings are excellent," junior Sarah Varela said...
Lodge subtly and humorously paints the characters in Paradise News. Particularly, the minor characters manage to achieve some sort of depth within the limited scope of their roles in the book. Harold Best's victimized angst and Brian Everthorpe's jocular callousness escape being caricatures without losing humor...
...slumgullion. If you thought new American art couldn't get much worse than it was by the end of the 1980s, visit MOCA and learn. It isn't Charles Manson you think of in "Helter Skelter" but John Milton on the topography of the netherworld: "And in the lowest depths, a lower depth." The thesis of the show is that just below the sunny promotional surface of Los Angeles there is a stratum of alienation, murder, bad dreams and apocalyptic fantasies that reflect themselves inexorably...