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Harvard Film Archive--Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song directed by Melvin Van Peebles at 7 p.m. $6.50. Paths of Glory directed by Stanley Kubrick...
...team, its hard to believe their best effort has ended in a loss, but the 5-1 score is not really indicative of the game." Harvard assistant coach Paul Melvin said...
Thursday: two members of Living Colour, guitarist Vernon Reid and drummer William Calhoun, have joined forces with acclaimed bassist Melvin Gibbs to form an all-instrumental trio, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $11 day of show...
...Melvin H. Chalfen '50, who spoke before the school committee, suggested the condoms be distributed through the existing Teen Health Center--provided students first sit down with a counselor to discuss proper usage of the contraceptive, as well as the practice of abstinence as the best way to avoid sexually-transmitted diseases...
Baadasssss, as in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which Melvin Van Peebles (Mario's father) made in 1971. Sex-sated and X-rated, Sweetback trumpeted the bustling era of blaxploitation films. Their heroes were no lilies of the field. They dealt drugs (Super Fly) or tracked down drug dealers (Shaft). Short on artistry but long on verve, these violent epics were significant for the same reason they remained, in every sense, a minority entertainment: they were movies made not only for blacks but, often, by them. African-American filmmakers had kicked their foot through the industry's back door...