Word: melvins
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...that it owed its world view to their antipodes - militant groups like the Black Panthers. Blaxploitation didn't have a dream; it had a shotgun. And if many of its heroes were pimps and pushers, at least they could do the pushing without getting punished for it onscreen. Melvin van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's BaadAsssss Song (1971) - "Rated X by an all-white jury," bragged the poster - stunned audiences simply by showing a strong black man who fought, had explicit sex and tangled with white cops, yet didn't get killed for it by the end of the movie. Blaxploitation...
...Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard. But economists say that when the housing boom finally ends on a broad scale--and that could be a year or more away--most homeowners will see merely stunted appreciation, not declines. "Real estate is the place to be," proclaims Melvin Barney, an attorney from Cleveland...
...willing to bear arms for an organization that wants to destroy the U.S. I admire the restraint of those who captured him. I believe that if I had come upon him in Afghanistan, we wouldn't have had to face the problem of what to do with him. MELVIN HOUX Mancos, Colo...
Undeterred, we continued making major additions to the collection. William Melvin Kelley contributed a remarkable short story entitled, “My Next to Last Hit.” Eileen Southern, who studied musicology at NYU before becoming the first African-American woman to earn full tenure at Harvard, wrote an essay about her pioneering experience. Huggins, to whose memory we dedicated the volume, wrote a revealing retrospective. And Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School (HLS) wrote the much-needed introduction. Hearing of these additions, New York University Press finally agreed to publish the collection. When Blacks at Harvard...
...call "psychogenic cancellations." Hong Kong's hotels have reported 50% drops in bookings in the past few weeks, while bellboys and concierges across the region are spending a lot of time twiddling their thumbs. "We don't see any new bookings coming in for October at all," says Melvin Iskander, manager of the Tanjung Rhu resort on the Malaysian island of Langkawi. "Everyone is waiting to see what happens when the fighting starts." This is horrible news for the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand, all of which are heavily dependent on tourists' foreign currency...