Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most deliriously convoluted film noir ever made, and the new picture retains the clockwork heart of the 1947 Robert Mitchum movie: a gangster hires an investigator to find the woman who has run away from him; when hunter and hunted meet and fall in love, the hood suffers a criminal loss of temper. But it has misplaced the suffering romantic soul of its model, which ex pressed itself through narration and dialogue that recollected tacky things past in tough, cynically charged metaphors and through images as shadowed as an ambiguous memory. It was all rather as if Philip Marlowe...
...drive to obtain the ball began several months ago when approximately 10 Winthrop House students realized they could obtain the ball by collecting a certain number of Hood popsicle wrappers, said Vincent Y. Ho '84 of Winthrop House. According to an advertisement on the wrapper they could obtain a rubber with added control and playability" for only 3,475 wrappers or $9.95 and five wraps...
...they don't usually bring the wrappers to Hood's door...
...from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner and the sub are sso toylike carries one back to the I mock battles of the nursery, to the child's delight in constructing harmless miniature wrecks that dis charge the aggressions of child? hood. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." So the real subject of Morley's painting is not so much the death of people or the destruction of machinery as the general, "ineradicable ground of adult violence in the infant psyche...
...lyrical paean to maternal ancestry, a tribute to the Black women who suffered and died and were enslaved in this country and elsewhere, women who stifled their formidable creativity in order not to lose their minds. In it, she captures the mystical, earthy qualities of mother-hood and spiritual creativity, two of her central themes. She recounts the poet Jean Toomer's discovery in the South of the 1920's women: whose spirituality was so intense, so deep, so unconscious, that they held. In the selfless abstractions their bodies became to the men who used them, they became more than...