Word: madonna
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...essays collected here, hooks draws on a broad range of sources, from post-colonialist criticism to personal experience and discussion with friends to critique the treatment of race in popular culture. hooks argues convincingly that these issues matter, that the way we perceive Anita Hill's testimony, Madonna's videos or J. Crew's latest catalogue can shape our understanding of our own lives...
...most of the well-cast Peaches lineup (which includes Madonna as a sexually outre outfielder), playing in the league is pure pleasure, a larkish flight from hometown constraints. But Davis, an entrancing mixture of wariness, reserve and quiet gumption, finds something more in it, an authentic awareness of the ambiguity of the women's position -- they are being exploited, after all -- which requires a lifetime for her to resolve. That's good, and so is her abrasive relationship with a kid sister (Lori Petty), a pitcher on the team who resents her elder sibling's cool, dispassionate competence...
Rapper Ice-T challenges his fans to take action. "We got two options," he says. "Either vote or hostile takeover. I'm down with either one. We're youth; we have to change things." Pop vamp Madonna literally wraps her otherwise scantily clad body in the American flag and cries out "Vote!" to - the staccato rhythms of her hit song Vogue, ending with the admonition, "If you don't vote, you're going to get a spankie...
...These unconventional calls to patriotic duty are part of a broadly orchestrated campaign by celebrities, cable channels and record companies to get youths involved in the electoral process. "The idea," says Jody Uttal, co-founder of the voter-registration group Rock the Vote, which produced the Ice-T and Madonna videos, "is to raise the political consciousness of kids and to make voting...
...Until Madonna is moved to lead a rally to the local garbage dump, Gans favors educational efforts like the First Vote campaign sponsored by People for the American Way. Its classroom instruction method, in which teachers devote a social studies period to the electoral process and register students right in the classroom, is based on a Dade County, Fla., program that registers around 12,000 high school students every year. Meanwhile Channel % One, the advertiser-supported television service that is provided to public and private schools, is planning a mock election in which its 7.1 million viewers, assisted...