Word: motorcyclist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last half of the shooting that Vixen should touch on some Major Issues of the Day, like racial tension, the War, the draft, revolution, etc. He's not too good at dealing with these ideas, and he ended up dumping all his social messages on one character: a black motorcyclist, who left America because of the draft and who nearly hijacks Mr. Vixen's plane to Cuba to promote racial justice. Meyer could have done himself and his viewers a big favor by cutting all the "relevant" scenes. There's no reason in the world that Vixen should be wasting...
...display falls into this category of formal photography. But the pictures that do form the show's core. The charges of superficiality that have been hurled about can hardly be leveled against Aaron Siskind's "Black Sleeping below White Pinups," Gordon Parks' character studies, or Steve Schapiro's militant "Motorcyclist" with a Kennedy lapel pin held in his teeth. Both visually arresting and intensely personal, these photographs make individual artistic statements whose sociological application might be debatable but whose value in a documentary exhibition of this type is self-evident...
...seeks to protect the individual from himself? In Michigan, the Court of Appeals recalled an 1889 state court ruling: "Under our system of government, the aim is to leave the subject entire master of his conduct, except when the public good requires some direction or restraint." A law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets, continued the court, "has a relationship to the protection of the individual motorcyclist from himself, but not to the public health, safety and welfare." So Michigan's motorcyclists no longer must use helmets. But the Rhode Island Supreme Court was "not persuaded that the legislature...
...young man in Paris gradually turns into a salamander. An elegant young girl crosses a bridge in Budapest and becomes an aged crone in the process. A motorcyclist, after skidding into a curb, finds himself lashed to an Aztec altar as a priest approaches with a knife. The nastiest member of an Argentine family walks into the wrong room and is eaten by a tiger...
Stories of the surgical reattachment of an arm, hand or foot after accidental amputation have reached medical journals from places as far apart as Boston and Canton. But rare indeed is the restorative surgery that can claim the success now reported from California. An Oakland motorcyclist whose leg was sliced through three inches above the ankle had his severed foot put back in place, and last week, more than three years after the operation, he was well on the way to walking normally...