Word: doves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attacker tried to lift it towards the left corner. Milhollin dove and could not reach...
...Book Award for fiction in 1990, explore the black experience in America. Still others, such as Wolfe, choreographer David Rousseve and writer Darius James (Negrophobia: An Urban Parable), dissect racial stereotypes, while those like choreographer Ralph Lemon and sculptor Martin Puryear reflect no identifiable racial content at all. Rita Dove summarizes the trend best when she says: "There are times when I am a black woman who happens to be a poet and times when I am a poet who happens to be black. There are also times when I am more conscious of being a mother or a member...
...body bends from break dancing to evoke the moods of a loving relationship. The piece ends with Jones, dressed in an apron-length white skirt, sitting, kneeling and finally lying on a shroudlike white cloth as he hoarsely and painfully intones the words of the old spiritual Nora's Dove...
...Ulysses Dove, 47, another New Yorker, defiantly opts for freedom. He has earned the rare distinction of being the only dancer to have performed for both Ailey and Merce Cunningham, whose choreographic visions were diametrically opposite. Despite his admitted debt to Ailey, for whom he also composed dances, Dove has no interest in centering his own work on black motifs. In fact, sex rather than race dominates most of the 17 pieces, raw but energetic, that he has created since he stopped dancing in 1980. "If you want to be political, the place to do that is politics," he says...
Last October, time senior correspondent Jack White noted that in the same week, one African-American author, Toni Morrison, won the Nobel Prize for Literature while another, Poet Laureate Rita Dove, read her work at the White House. Not long thereafter, another black poet, Yusef Komunyakaa, won the Pulitzer Prize. White began to wonder whether these events and the increasing prominence of other African-American authors signaled a black literary efflorescence...