Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film, titled "Chicano: A History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement," depicted the strike of California grape workers led by Caesar Chavez from...
...Sometimes it's more convenient not to think about what's going into your mouth and what it took to get there. You say, 'My eating this grape is not going to affect anyone," Alcaraz said...
...This year, with Beth Stewart's election [as president of the Undergraduate Council] and the grape vote, there's definitely a feeling that conservative or pragmatic forces are in ascendancy," Hopkins says...
Here, the funky part of one's soul wants to stand up for Black Grape in the name of aesthetics and the sublime. After all, the album's title came from the words Kermit once had to substitute on television for the line "talking bullshit...bullshit...bullshit" from Black Grape's first album: "talking stupid... stupid...stupid" seems apt. Children listening to Black Grape can count on getting some very wrong ideas, and all good people everywhere whose sympathy is not limited to liberal white drug-using men can count on being insulted by some part of the album...
...over content. When ShaunRyder sings about sexism, he is in a sense mockingit, defusing it with the same sarcasm thatdeflates everything he touches. Just what BlackGrape believes is Stupid, Stupid, Stupid isobvious. Laughing as they rocket over the egoismof grunge and the self-conscious stylism of Oasisand Blur, Black Grape has no inclination not toalso leave political music in the scrap heap. Whenit comes to humor, there is intelligence in seeingthe commonalties between politically correctnessand training wheels. In the middle of "Lonely," adrunk Shaun Ryder makes an edifying "It's up toyou" speech; in an interview he said he only...