Word: grans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film shows a healthy, handsome and cheerful people organized as a matrilineal society under tribal chiefs, or "Gran Men." Their laws and customs date back to a precolonial Africa uninfluenced by European rulers. In one scene, a group of pallbearers carries a coffin from door to door so that the obeah, or medicine man, can ask if someone in the house was involved in the death. "Death is rarely considered natural," Actor James Earl Jones says as narrator of the film, "and certain people are divined to be responsible." If the coffin tilts toward a particular house during the ritual...
Dora Smith, the first black forewoman at Detroit's Budd Co., a supplier of automotive parts, acknowledges her unabashed, triumphant materialism. When she bought her 1974 Ford Gran Torino, she says, "I used to go out at night just to make sure it was still there. Then when I'd get up the next day, I'd say 'Good morning, car.'" D. Parke Gibson, a New York City marketing analyst who advises corporations on how to tap the $46 billion-a-year black market, says that buying sprees by blacks may be something...
...Hugheses have something that many other Americans would envy: an almost debt-free life. From the plastic-slipcovered furniture to the color television console, everything in their $217-a-month, two-bedroom apartment is fully paid for. Their only major bill is the note on their 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, which will be paid off this year. The Hugheses hope to buy a home within the next five years. Meanwhile, says Hughes, "we're living comfortable, but it'll take me a few years to reach certain goals. I'm happy with the fact that...
...friend. During the first minutes of the film proper, he shoots up some cops and abducts Suzy Kendall, who just happens to be sitting around a Louisiana courtroom, a stroke of luck about as likely as finding Jean Shrimpton whittling in front of some general store. Stealing a convenient Gran Torino, he then sets off over back roads and along the edges of levees, pursuing a band of international heavies while at the same time being pursued by the state police, who mistake him, understandably, for a menace to society. "I hate you so much it hurts," Suzy spits...
...next day an Israeli businessman known as Moshe Hanan Yshai was inexplicably shot twice while strolling on the Gran Via, Madrid's busiest street, in view of hundreds of shoppers. Sources in Jerusalem identified the victim as Baruch Cohen, 37, and admitted that he was employed by the Israeli government. His line of work was intelligence; Cohen was on the Gran Via tracking the man who was to shoot and kill him. Before he died, he identified his murderer as a member of Black September-which claimed credit for the assassination...