Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between different factions on campus. Antiapartheid activist Vaughn "Dap" Dunlap (Larry Fishburne) is trying to incite Mission to divest. His fight brings him into conflict with Julian "Big Brother Almighty" Eaves (Giancarlo Esposito) leader of the Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity, who condemns Dap and his "fellas" for their "African mumbo-jumbo...
...century of efforts to quantify physiological differences between the races has yielded plenty of anthropological mumbo jumbo. In the early days of Darwinism, some European scholars suggested that the major races had each descended from a different species of ape: Caucasians from chimpanzees, the most intelligent nonhuman primates; Orientals from orangutans; and Negroes from gorillas, the biggest and blackest...
...mumbo-jumbo at the end of the movie further demonstrates Almodovar's utter lack of subtlety, his chaotic design. Indeed, he takes no notice of any traditional ideas of propriety. But as one of his characters says, "It's not enough to be unscrupulous. You have to have a certain sense of humor." In Law of Desire, Almodovar uses his well...
...Mumbo Jumbo says: "No one says a novel...
...most of his books, Butter Battle took eight months to get right. He bristles at the suggestion that such fare takes less talent or work than literature for grownups. "When you write for kids, if you don't write more clearly and concisely and cut out all the mumbo jumbo, you lose your audience," he says. But the result can "seem frightfully barren because they only want the meat of it." If the idea of a Seuss book being barren seems surprising, imagine the reaction of the occasional young visitor bold enough to call on the Wizard of Whimsy...