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...When I was writing, I was very determined to prove something," she says, "and that's a shame because that's a bad instinct." What did she have to prove? Perhaps that a young, half-Jamaican, half-white female could write a novel that transcends her personal demographics. "A lot of black writing is this love-in, and I definitely don't write love-ins," she says, adding, "What did people think I was going to write? Some kind of searing slave drama or single-girl-in-London tale...
...Third World Cop is not a Hollywood vehicle featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme kicking butt in the poppy fields of some developing country. It's a Jamaican-made police/action drama starring indigenous actors and shot with low-budget digital cameras. The movie is a runaway success on the island, and though it won't be released in the U.S. until later this year, the sound track is in stores this week. The album is an engaging mix of reggae and hip-hop-influenced dance hall. Performers include reggae star Luciano as well as dance-hall acts Beenie Man, Innocent Crew...
...Transcript fig. 4 Tango quorum 7 Actress __ Alicia 10 Greenspan, who was just approved for a 4th term 11 Northern Ireland's Paisley 12 Grouchoesque look 14 Campus military org. 15 Malaprop or Doubtfire 16 Medicinal fluids 17 Yuppie's degree 18 Dude, Jamaican-style 19 Kind of buddy 20 Tie up the phone 21 "Goodnight" girl 23 Out-of-date, in dicts. 24 Bank claim 26 Fix the brakes 28 Abner's radio partner 30 Toward the tiller 31 Skimpy top 34 Tiny amount 37 Impact sound 38 Radio parts 40 Ford is offering these to all its employees...
Marley's musical message is having no trouble finding new audiences. Legend, the Jamaican singer-songwriter's greatest-hits album, is, after 15 years and 10 million copies sold, still on the Billboard charts. Songs of Freedom, a four-CD boxed set of Marley's music, has been reissued after selling out its initial limited-edition run of 1 million copies. Chris Blackwell, head of the multimedia-entertainment company Palm Pictures and the man who signed Marley to Island Records, says Marley's lasting appeal is rooted in his approach to music. "His music was never overexposed at the time...
Marley, who died of cancer in 1981 at age 36, brought the Third World to the whole world. The dirt streets of the Jamaican slum of Trench Town, the myths and tales of the Caribbean, the wisdom and fire of the Old Testament--he drew from it all, creating reggae music, rebel psalms, that rang with poetry and prophecy. Romance, for him, was not incompatible with revolution; bullets and ballads were both the stuff of his work. He envisioned a world beyond this one but never lost sight of the horrors and joys of the here...