Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of voodoo, [notably] Angel Heart, which I felt was racist, both subliminally and explicitly. This was a film where every black person was shown to be barefoot, illiterate, with the exception of Lisa Bonet, who was shown to be a Valley Girl. But on the most dangerous level, a really nefarious suggestion was made that voodoo was somehow satanic...
Davis: I think you have to be realistic about what a movie is. On one level it is entertainment and on another level it's a statement. This film, however, more than any other, is going to expose the stereotypes. I mean, Bill Pullman doesn't become a zombie, he's a poison victim, and it's completely consistent with my own hypothesis about how this kind of thing could work...
...else does either. The Bruins have proved that you can take an elevator below basement level. Brown is groping around in the sewers with a 0-13 record...
...stinks like a political decision and Ithink it's an awful thing for the IOC to do," saidJames P. Russell '88, co-captain of the trackteam. "It's really a shame that the Olympicsshould be degraded to this level...
...have to renew the support on the federal level that has disappeared on account of Reagan's federalism. Can [the bill] get funded in this climate of budget cutting and looming deficit? I do not know, but it sounds like a wonderful idea," O'Neill said...