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Prince's crony Morris Day appears, quite amusingly, as the headman of the vandals, and the producers Jimmy (Jam) Harris and Terry Lewis show up as a couple of his henchmen. Harris and Lewis were pals and musical rivals of Prince's back in junior high school, and have gone on to some substantial success of their own by producing the last two top-selling Janet Jackson albums. But in Graffiti Bridge they are called on to re-enact the old adolescent competition. Prince bests them, natch. As a colleague explains, "Prince wrote the script, pulled in the money, directed...
...that supply the tribe with food, medicines and even the poison for blowgun darts used to kill monkeys and hornbill. Outraged at seeing their way of life destroyed, the Penan have periodically blockaded roads leading into the forest in a losing effort to keep the loggers out. Says Penan headman Asik Nyelit, who has twice been arrested by Malaysian authorities for his role in the blockades: "If we just sit, we are going...
...Will the headman distribute...
...Headman. For 50 years, his father was headman of a village of 47 families who share common grazing land for their prized livestock. Having inherited that position of respect, he now rotates cattle guard among the families, collects taxes, presides over quarrels, grants divorces and mediates disputes. He is entitled to eight acres of land, two more than the six other members of his kraal (family group...
...harder for him to be a headman than it was for his father. Local leaders have become assassination targets. Even though he was jailed by the government for four years as a nationalist sympathizer, he can no longer be sure how his political record will be judged. He rarely sleeps at home; he rubs his long, thin fingers together to ease the stress as he talks. What "frightens me," he says, is the way harm can come from any quarter. If there is fighting in his area, he flees. "If the soldiers come, they might think I am the troublemaker...