Word: phillips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally, weren't Paglia's 15 minutes up about 12 minutes ago? Phillip Brian Harper Assistant Professor, English and Afro-American Studies. Jeffrey Masten Assistant Professor, English...
...students at Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, etc., have with such invitations thumbed their noses at the humanistic civil rights tradition--a tradition honed by the best of African-American leadership, like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Benjamin Mays, Horace Mann Bond, James Weldon Johnson, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, to name just...
Butch Haynes (Costner), a "criminal's criminal," has broken out of jail along with Terry (Keith Szarabajka), a garden-variety psychopath. The convicts terrorize a mother and her children and take seven-year-old Phillip (T.J. Lowther) hostage. Tracking their flight is a Texas Ranger posse led by Eastwood, your basic righteous cowboy emeritus, and sparked by Laura Dern, a Governor's aide who brings feminist compassion and common sense to the pursuit. Bad guys, good guys, vroom-vroom...
...warped Shane. In that 1953 film, mysterious gunslinger Alan Ladd agrees to protect a homesteader's family against varmints and becomes a reluctant role model for the tenderfoot's young son. Here, Haynes is the bad guy, but he's mainly Shane. When Terry puts the make on Phillip, Butch avenges the assault. He gives Phillip lessons in backwoods manhood: how to smoke, cuss, dance, romance a waitress, drive a car, steal a car, rob a store and, of course, point a loaded gun at people you don't like. It's the blind leading the blind: Butch is trying...
...explain most of his antisocial excesses. Seems his mother was a prostitute and his dad "beat the hell out of anything he ever came across, or screwed, or fathered." As abused children become abusive adults, so poorly parented Butch turns into a lame excuse for a father to Phillip. But the boy is ready to learn from, idolize -- and finally stand up to -- the first man who has taken a paternal interest...