Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Godfrey Cambridge as veteran Harlem detectives. In Cotton a modern day Marcus Garvey is unmasked as a charlatan, while in Charleston Blue a dynamic young black photographer who rids the community of heroin turns out to be using it for his own purposes. Black Americans are implicitly instructed that Pan-Africanist leaders are frauds and that blacks who attempt to serve the community have alternative motives. The thrust of these films is that blacks are incapable of solving their own problems and only the all-embracing parental arm of white law can save blacks from themselves...
Although representatives of the two groups that sponsored last year's occupation--the Pan African Liberation Committee and Afro-have expressed strong disapproval and disagreement with Farber's report, neither group his yet disclosed plan of action to press their of further...
...Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) and Afro, the two groups which led last year's protests, said that they will release a "rebuttal" to Farber's report next week...
...plan, which went into effect on KNXT'S 6 o'clock news two weeks ago. The Los Angeles outlets of NBC and ABC were downright hostile when Sheehan asked them for film clips to illustrate his reviews. "They felt that I would automatically praise CBS shows and pan theirs," he says. ABC went so far as to demand a signed affidavit that the reviews would be favorable. NBC simply said...
...samurai warrior, Costello is obsessed by ritual, whether it is pulling on a pair of white gloves before he uses his revolver or standing in front of a mirror adjusting the brim of his hat until it is just so. The hat, unfortunately, looks like a felt pie pan, and Delon moves mechanically through the action. Melville means to pay sober hom age to all the Hollywood films that did all this but better. It is a pity that for all its virtues, The Godson's patina of high seriousness renders every scene forced and selfconscious...