Word: haitian
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...subjects that seems to hold the pictures to the gallery wall and prevent any quick dismissal of them. It is as if that "transparent" peephole is also completely opaque-full of a mysters that could not be ciphered. He has turned his snapshots into stone. His portrait of a "Haitian Woman," for example, is so casual that it could be a passport photograph and yet so full of a unity of expression that it is ultimately as impenetrable as it is gripping...
...native in Paris, or dwelled on her memories of France although living in the States. Now she plunges into American culture during the fifties, whose chaos both amuses and infuriates her. The sight of movers in Los Angeles wheeling an entire house down the street reminds her of Haitian fairy tales about trees that switched positions during the night. It occurs to her that the trucks heading for film studios laden with subway stations would appeal to the surrealists. A man in Greenwich Village called the One-Man-Band infatuates her with his unlikely rig made...
...point, a Haitian immigrant named Jean-Louis Andre Yvon, 33, turned unwittingly onto Dorchester Street. Some 35 people surrounded Yvon's car, smashed his windshield and pulled him out. Someone shouted, "Get the nigger!" Yvon fled for the porch of a nearby house and clung to the railing as youths battered him with clubs. Only after a white policeman drew his pistol and fired some warning shots was a dazed and bleeding Yvon finally rescued. "He would have been dead if I hadn't fired," the policeman said later...
...apology for your flippancy first and foremost to those who are suffering and dying under the gun of General Pinochet, and also to those who sponsored and participated in this small but important demonstration: Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, Haitian Action Committee, Harvard-Radcliffe La Raza, Indochina Peace Campaign (Boston), MECHA, Revolutionary Communist League (Internationalist), Revolutionary Communist Youth, Spartacist League, and Youth Against War and Fascism. Keith Anderson The Spartacist League
...celebration also included a reading of Langston Hughes' poetry by Felipe Noguera '77, songs by the Haitian Cultural Group, and the singing of the "Internationale...