Word: jiving
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...which the star emerges from his rickety spaceship to do battle with the Evil Empress, played with magisterial malevolence by Oscar Winner Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor). Jackson, who by now could double for his own Tussaud waxwork, is an improbable Han Solo, but he still dances like a jive Astaire and earned audible swoons from teenage girls at the premiere. The film's 3-D effects are familiar but engineered with flair: an asteroid waits to plop in your lap, Fuzzball hovers adorably over your shoulder, and Huston's tentacle talons virtually shred your shirt...
...musician pal of Simon's passed him a bootleg cassette of instrumental music with that intriguing name, subtitled Accordion Jive Hits, Volume II. Simon played it all during the summer of 1984, hearing in its unsprung beat echoes of old rhythm and blues, '50s style. The music on the tape turned out to be mbaqanga, or "township jive," from the streets of Soweto. Simon became obsessed. In January 1985, he took off for South Africa and began to record with Soweto's Boyoyo Boys, Tao Ea Matsekha (a group from Lesotho), and General M.D. Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters...
...with an ironic twist that can pass for 1980s modernism. We're so hip, we know that every movie thrill is a fraud. We know the technique behind each matte shot, each jive emotion. Perhaps the audience at some B-minus sci-fi thriller in the 1950s solemnly attended to the stilted dialogue, leaden performances and not-so-special effects. But today's cognoscenti find the dew of nostalgia on these pictures, then wink and say, "They're so bad, they're good." Smart directors stoke the trend with camp updates of the olden turkeys. In Tobe Hooper's remake...
...break it to you folks but some of us can't help being women or fat and do not appreciate being insulted. Do we still laugh at racist jokes? (Obviously not, considering the general furor over the Dartmouth Review's editorial on Black students, "It Ain't No Jive Bro.") Then why do we still laugh at humor that degrades and insults women? While the editors of the Lampoon may not have had malicious intentions, there are limits to humor. Kamala Shirin Lakhdir...
...fledgling paper printed an article written entirely in Black dialect entitled "Dis Sho' Ain't No Jive, Bro," which implied that Dartmouth had lowered admissions standards in order to accomodate Blacks. Recent articles have also questioned admissions policies pertaining to Jews, challenged the morality of homosexuality, and lampooned the admission of women into the college...