Word: jemima
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...paid to their pain. Would you expect any Iraqi today to hand over unambiguous support for U.S. or British policies after what the sanctions have done to his life? Americans and other Westerners have not shown concern for ordinary suffering Muslims around the world. Just a few months ago Jemima Khan, the daughter of Britain...
...chance that Lawrence's case came to the notice of researchers at all. Documentary director Jemima Harrison of Carlton Television, which produced the bbc documentary, was making what looked like a routine report on Parkinson's research. A friend of hers had recommended Lawrence as an especially articulate sufferer. "We were talking about filming him trying a new surgical technique in Spain," says Harrison. "Then one day I asked him out of curiosity if cannabis helped him at all. He said no, and I nosily asked if he'd tried any other drugs. He said, ?Well, I occasionally take ecstasy...
...ethical or aesthetic standards on TV. Aided by his skeptical, ambitious assistant (Jada Pinkett Smith), he hires as his stars a homeless tap dancer (Savion Glover) and his pal (Tommy Davidson). Renamed Mantan and Sleep 'n Eat, they are given a supporting cast of Topsy, Rastus, Sambo and Aunt Jemima--enough reminders of racism to spur protests from an enraged citizenry. Guess what? The show is a smash. Audience members show up in blackface. The unknowns become stars. America loves Mantan...
...matter what George Curry accomplishes during the remainder of his journalistic career, he will be remembered for one thing: he was the editor who slapped a portrait of Clarence Thomas wearing an Aunt Jemima-style handkerchief on a 1993 cover of Emerge magazine. That shocking image outraged Thomas' supporters, of course, but it crystallized the disgust that many African Americans had begun to feel about the ultraconservative legal philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court's only black member. It also put Emerge on the map. "It let people know there was nothing and no one we were afraid to take...