Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here's a movie. Three stories that begin as cliches but soon go wild and wily. A gallery of tough guys who minor in philosophy. Career-defining turns by John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Peppery dialogue that brings macho swank into the '90s. Quentin Tarantino's adrenaline rush of a melodrama is a brash dare to timid Hollywood filmmakers. Let's see, he says, if you can be this smart about going this...
...appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male neglect of family obligations, runaway teenage births, nihilistic violence by macho males, etc.). The simplistic catharsis of xenophobic, Afrocentrist discourse is just plain useless in the face of these manifold crises confronting perhaps 40 percent of Black households today...
...late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein), you should be formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, to overcome hyper-macho, anarchic and anti-humanistic values and personal identities...
...should be formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, to overcome hyper-macho, anarchic, and anti-humanistic values and personal identities," Kilson wrote...
...nerves," says Ridley, "shaking his hands and pacing himself into a frenzy. But boom, once he was up there, he was in control." His early material, Allen recalls, was full of sexual and scatological references: "It was like turning your guitar up real loud." Eventually he hit on the macho-tool-guy persona that became his trademark. "What really interested me was garages and tools and all that I call 'men's stuff.' The more I started talking about it, the more I would get men to stand up and listen to my comedy. And then women would...