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...object lesson in the benefits of / culture shock. Johnny Clegg, a white South African obsessed with Zulu culture, and Sipho Mchunu, a black man infatuated with the rhythm of rock, made seven raving, ravishing Juluka albums between 1979 and 1985. This selection of highlights from that time still has mule-kick energy, a proud social conscience and a sound that's fresher than the day after tomorrow...
...MULE BONE. Famed among scholars of black literature as an intriguing might- have-been, this 1930 collaboration between Harlem poet Langston Hughes and fiction writer Zora Neale Hurston needed 61 years, and further tinkering, to make it to Broadway. The result, a fable set in a small Florida town, is vibrantly acted and full of charm, its dialectal richness enhanced by twangy Taj Mahal songs...
...coming to Harvard next spring to accept a visiting lectureship, both the national and the local media gobbled up the story. The Associated Press, after crediting the Crimson with the original story, interviewed soon-to-be Professor Lee over the phone from his Brooklyn studio, "Forty Acres and a Mule...
...Bolivar tells his closest aide. "No one loves us here." Terminally ill, fearful of assassination, mocked on the streets, Bolivar sets off on a mule toward self-imposed exile...
...this is the Mo' Better Blues that is passing itself off as Spike Lee's latest work. It looks like a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production, and sometimes it even sounds like one. But the meaning, the sense of purpose, which pervaded School Daze and the brilliant Do the Right Thing are noticably absent...