Word: mother
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poems that accompany the pictures on the following pages are all by Negroes, and all but one are by Americans. Yet Africa too moves in the depths of each; tender and ghostly, pantherlike, a mother bereaved. For every black American, as Claude McKay's poem suggests, makes peace-or else fails to make peace-with ancestors whose names, whose very tribes, were long since lost to consciousness . Henri Rousseau's pitch-black Snake Charmer reigns at Paris' Jeu de Paume. She makes immense cold phallic serpents writhe into the moonlight, sleepily. One may identify with...
...villains of the piece are the wily, arrogant, and ego-tripping males. They want a home, a Mother, and sex. and they get them at the cost of violating the individuality of their women. Though they try to rationalize their selfish actions, the admission of selfishness is more valid to them than that of weakness. "I've. opened up a whole new world of instinctual pleasures for you," says The Hunter to his bride whom he has just raped. When she remains moaning on the floor, he comes back with, "Well, you'll learn to like...
Along the way on his various projects. Nader has cultivated a sizable lore to surround his public image. One Washington burcaucrat told me very solemnly this summer that Nader never sleeps, rarely eats, and only takes time off from his work to visit his mother in Connecticut. Another man pointed out the spot on F Street in downtown Washington where Nader supposedly disappeared one sunny day, only to emerge two hours later on a speaker's podium in California...
...girls cooked dinner, Donovan and the boys went down to the pub. A Scottish fellow had hitched in that day with his guitar, and he and Donovan sang a few old ballads together: then Donovan gave his autograph to a girl who was at the pub with her mother. After a few pints, we returned to the house for a delicious macrobiotic dinner...
...other film in memory. Among them: a young contract player who comes on as a kind of poor man's Michael Parks; a starlet who will do anything for a part ("One thing I'm sure of is nobody can give you what I can"); a stage mother who says with a straight face that wearing a scarf that was the wrong color one day "cost me the part that made Rita Hayworth." It is theoretically possible that a shoddier and more tiresome series than Bracken will emerge in the second week of premi...