Word: men
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Diamond began filming Dancemaker just as Taylor was preparing to choreograph Piazzolla Caldera, the finest dance he has made since his 1991 masterpiece, Company B. In the new piece seven men and five women pair off to perform slinky tangos with a brittle, self-conscious physicality that has the ragged edge of barely controlled violence. To watch Piazzolla Caldera evolve from dancer Francie Huber's first tentative steps in the studio to the electrifying New York City premiere last March is a delicious act of artistic voyeurism...
POSTURE IMPERFECT Women athletes may be more vulnerable than men to knee injuries because they tend to crouch less when they play sports like basketball and soccer. The upright posture, especially detrimental during landing and pivoting, forces the quadriceps to exert pressure on knee ligaments...
...call it business as usual. The sad truth is that in far too many places in America, black life is cheap. As outrageous as the police conduct in the Diallo case seems to have been, it is only a highly publicized example of the slaughter that has made black men an endangered species. Despite overall declines in the homicide rate, murder at the hands of another black man remained the leading cause of death for black males ages 15 to 24 through much...
...Anderson. "Instead of relying on the police to protect them, they let other people know that they can defend themselves with overwhelming force, which these days means having a gun and being willing to use it." The inflated sense of confidence that packing a gun engenders, especially in young men, can easily escalate a petty argument into a fatal confrontation. Step on somebody's shoes, and you could wind up dead...
...Mayor Rudy Giuliani--have not made the connection. As Hugh Price of the National Urban League puts it, even poor people have "a right to be protected by the police, not be preyed on by them." Until the cops figure that out, it will be open season on black men...