Word: melvins
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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...
...higher, and in one day hiked the 25-mile-long trail that crosses over the Presidential Range. His habits include attending services at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Hopkinton, where he prefers the 1928 prayer book to the 1970s modernized version. His close friend from Oxford, Dr. Melvin Levine, who now teaches pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School at Chapel Hill, says of Souter, "You really feel as if you are with one of our Founding Fathers...
Milken's cadre of supporters, however, think he has suffered enough. Melvin Brosterman, a Manhattan securities lawyer, contends that nothing will be gained by sending Milken to jail. "Prison would be superfluous. For the last four years ((of the federal probe)), Michael Milken has been serving a sentence, being hounded and living under a cloud. I'd give him credit for time served." Milken's attorney, Arthur Liman, is expected to plead for leniency on the ground that his client made an "enormous" contribution to the U.S. economy by using junk bonds to help finance hundreds of companies and create...
...might have lost half the Cabinet, certainly. Neither ((Secretary of State William)) Rogers nor ((Secretary of Defense Melvin)) Laird -- not because they were doves, but because they just thought it was the wrong decision -- would have supported an all-out attack in order to bring the war to a conclusion...
...drive was prompted by recent events at the Universities of Wisconsin, Melvin said. At Wisconsin, the faculty voted to sever ties with ROTC if the military did not change its exclusionary policies, but the school's trustees reversed the decision...