Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Holiday's death was tragic, but in an African-American sense, not a Greek one. Whenever Holiday travelled with an orchestra, black or white, she faced extreme prejudice and racism. While with Count Basie's orchestra in the South, she was forced to darken her skin with grease paint so the audience would not think she was a white singer working for a black band. When she was with Artie Shaw's orchestra, she was forced leave the stage after her songs were over because it was not "proper" for her to sit down onstage with whites...
...Brent's script follows Evangeline Edwards--the nymph errant--as she meanders across the Continent, having been encouraged by her boarding school chemistry teacher to "experiment" with different experiences and, inevitably, with different men. Her romantic interests run the gamut from a lecherous French musical director to a sleazy Greek merchant...
...heroism, brutality and survival that restore dimension to the century's signature satanic event, the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. What is unusual is that in this holiday season, no fewer than three Hollywood films deal with the Holocaust. Triumph of the Spirit tells the true tale of a Greek-Jewish boxer, Salamo Arouch, who literally fights for his life at Auschwitz. Music Box fictionalizes the 1988 trial of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian immigrant to the U.S. who was convicted of war crimes. And Enemies, a Love Story adapts Isaac Bashevis Singer's 1966 novel about Holocaust survivors sorting...