Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston University graduate student director Marcus Hogan supports Cinnamon's Color-and sex-blind casting policies. "I need someone to get into the essence of the character," he says. "Color or gender is not important...
...MARCUS ROBERTS: DEEP IN THE SHED (Novus). Now on his own after five years with the Wynton Marsalis band, this blind, bluesy, brilliant pianist is out with a gem of an album that showcases his skills as a composer as well as his stylish work at the keyboard...
Next day came reports that Doe died while being interrogated on the whereabouts of millions of dollars of state funds that had disappeared during his 10 years in power. In an effort to downplay Johnson's reputation as a ruthless rebel, his official spokesman, Marcus Dahn, attributed Doe's death to loss of blood and denied that the President had been intentionally murdered. "As a matter of fact, Doe's death is a regret," Dahn said, "because we have maintained that we would not use the same brutal means by which the man ruled the country...
...Hermes annual sales ninefold, to $460 million, since he took over in 1978. Moving aggressively into the U.S. and the Far East, he has opened 80 new shops, bringing the total to 238. Thirty more are planned. "Dumas is one of the brightest retailers in the world," says Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of the Neiman-Marcus stores. Marcus owns 175 Hermes silk ties, hand-screened and hand-hemmed at $95 each. "It is a status symbol," he admits. "But it is also the finest quality tie made anywhere...
...country of Jefferson, Washington and Lincoln and W.E. B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass and Marcus Garvey. It was the land of freedom and slavery, achievement and misery. It was a nation that revealed itself, in its history and philosophy, as an enigma; a confrontation of race and ideals. Afro-Am offered an opportunity to understand the United States...