Word: entertainers
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...remains a passionate, often politically incorrect, advocate for the black community. In 1996 he caused a ruckus with a speech in which he called for a separate African-American theater, castigated black playwrights and directors for participating in an "art that is conceived and designed to entertain white society" and decried the increasingly fashionable practice of "color-blind casting"--i.e., blacks playing traditionally white roles. The outcry was fierce; the drama critic Robert Brustein, in a blistering rebuttal in the New Republic, disparaged Wilson's plays and denounced his words as the "language of self-segregation...
There are rules, though, for movie-makers; they have a duty to entertain and, especially when they are projecting the future, offer cautionary instruction to the audience. How effortlessly this sequence does both. For Thunderdome is both hall of justice and cultural center for Bartertown, presided over by Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), purring like a tiger and claiming she has created civilization's highest flowering since nuclear devastation. Indeed she has, if an imitation of late 20th century city life--all junk, improvisations and random brutality--is your idea of civilization. Thunderdome brilliantly clarifies that irony. Its high-bounding excesses...
Voluntary-membership groups create things to entertain their members that are arguably more interesting than a standard dorm party-cum-keg. It’s not that more parties or more alcohol shouldn’t happen. It’s just that there’s a lot that the many vibrant social scenes that don’t depend on alcohol are doing right...
With the strings section continually out of sync, the second movement was particularly poor due to the orchestra’s part. Bartosik’s performance, however, continued to entertain and was as tender and graceful as ever. The overwhelming contrast between the soloist and the accompaniment left at least one audience member wishing the orchestra would put their instruments down and let the soloist perform unimpeded...
...Slow Hands.” While the Orpheum might not be the best place to catch the band—consider that three years ago you might have seen them at Bill’s Bar—the stylish group are consummate showmen, and will be sure to entertain both floor and balcony in the posh environs...