Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haile Selassie remained in power so long that few of his countrymen can remember the days when he was known as Ras (Duke) Tafari Makonne. The son of the governor of Harar province in eastern Ethiopia, Tafari was distantly related to Emperor Menelik II and was educated at the court in Addis Ababa. After Menelik's death in 1913, the nobility decided that the Emperor's grandson, Lij (Count) Hasu, was too dissolute to take over the throne. They installed Hasu's mother Zauditu, as Empress, and chose Tafari to be her regent and heir...
What makes Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? entertaining beyond its spirit and charm is the manner in which Writer-Director Philippe Mora has organized the footage and orchestrated it to a period score that runs from Duke Ellington and Woody Guthrie through Rudy Vallée and Ginger Rogers. There is no narration, hardly ever a title to identify a person or event. Fact and fiction are interwoven without distinction. For Mora, the hard reality of the Depression is inseparable from all the fancies it produced...
...were a marked man. Who else, for example, would allow himself to be cast as the only actor ever to kill John Wayne onscreen? In 1971, while Dern was still stuck in second-rank roles, he signed on in The Cowboys as Wayne's assassin. "Dern," said the Duke kindly, "you're gonna be hated everywhere in the world for this...
...serious economic problems American capitalism has encountered in more than forty years, have been moving from their liberalism back to the center rather than to the left. This pattern holds true most particularly and most depressingly in Massachusetts, this bastion of liberalism and hotbed of radicalism. In short, Mike Duke Dukakis has surprised everybody...
Tony Teixiera will be playing a Duke Ellington tribute concert tonight at the Berklee College Recital Hall at 8:15 for free...