Word: merediths
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...that the filmmakers may not be sincere. But what remonstrance is possible to someone capable of saying, as Albert did, that "I think we would have been disappointed if everything had stopped just at Madison Square Garden." It not for the Angels, and if not for Meredith Hunter, described to me by David Maysles as being dressed in a "nigger zoot suit, straight out of the nineteen-fifties, you wouldn't believe him if you saw him in a fiction film," the Maysles would have had just another promotional film on their hands. But above all credit...
...discover a way to get his message across and help lead black people, who had at best been tepid about the antiwar movement, into the protest. He reestablished his credibility with black people by going back on the streets of Chicago, and later, the backroads of Mississippi during the Meredith March, and retaking his position on the point...
Higgs - who represented James Meredith in his battle to gain admittance to the University of Mississippi - has been the legal counsel to Tijerina's Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres since 1968. Tijerina - perhaps one of the most controversial Chicano leaders - has claimed that 100,000,000 acres of New Mexico's common lands belong to Indo-Hispano people of the Southwest...
...leather vests. In 1965 they tore up an Oakland peace rally. Four years later came Altamont. Commissioned to protect Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones at a rock concert held at the California speedway, the Angels waded into the crowd with pool cues, leaving an 18-year-old black, Meredith Hunter, dead in their wake. (The Angel who killed him was acquitted on the ground of self-defense.) It all bolstered the legend that the Angels were the toughest, meanest cyclists around...
...from this dim hallway that the Shaded Veiled Lady, played by Meredith Kays, always enters. Throughout the play, in a wonderfully vicious voice, she preserves a rich, purring accent that doubles the sad, sultry fascination she exudes...