Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours of screen time to trace the dramatic transformations of Malcolm's life: from the street hustler who sold drugs and women into the charismatic spokesman for the Black Muslims who preached black self-determination and antiwhite rhetoric and, finally, into the orthodox Muslim who made a hajj to Mecca and embraced universal equality. The studio would prefer a brisk compression of the story. Twice in the past month, Lee and studio executives have faced off in shouting matches in which Lee cited Oliver Stone's 3-hr., 8-min. JFK. If a slain white hero like John F. Kennedy...
Malcolm X delivered the final speech in December, 1964--just two months before his assassination--after returning from a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca...
...search of the real experts, I went to the infamous mecca of anal retentive behavior--the Science Center, where I sat in on a Biology 2 lecture by Professor Karel Liem. In this course, students, almost without exception, take notes not only meticulously, but with Bic clicker four-color pens...
...Harvard Square, the intellectual and cultural mecca of New England, there are no Golden Arches, no Burger Kings, no Kentucky Fried Chickens...
...CARNEGIE HALL MUSEUM. New York City's refurbished musical mecca celebrates its centennial with a new permanent exhibit of 200 items. Included are such memorabilia as Toscanini's baton, Benny Goodman's clarinet and a 1964 debut program autographed by the Beatles...