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...Super Fly has come, and it looks like there's a whole new breed of pop cult cat on our hands. Like those other fellows, cocaine pusher Priest is violent and sexually ravenous, but his violence is only what's necessary and his women get more than good service--love, and responsible entry into the man's most private worldly concerns...
...Super Fly wants to land; tired of junk peddling, he hopes to make enough cash that he can escape from the double-cross world of crime to one where the options are more even and more open even for a black man (if he already has his money.) When Priest finds out that he can't escape at all--the Man won't let such a good seller go, and the Man happens to be also the Deputy Police Commissioner-Priest must use his wits and restrain his brawn, come out with a plan that can trap even the highest...
...obviously an attempt to create a new popular black hero and not to rip apart Harlem or the cocaine trade directly, one scene is so incisively written and acted with such conviction that it almost transcends its context to make a sad and angry statement on the black condition. Priest needs thirty keys of dope, an unprecedented figure for a pusher, in order to enable him to act on his first plan--simply to sell enough and get out. With his more cynical partner Eddie, Priest goes to the old friend who got him started on the trade...
...will live during the vigil. The fasters will take nothing but water for an "indefinite period," hoping to inspire a "new stage of resistance" among Americans. The 14 included familiar peace-movement veterans (David Dellinger, former Benedictine Monk Paul Mayer), younger recruits in their early 20s, and Roman Catholic Priest Tom Lumpkin of Detroit. Lumpkin carried the blessings of Detroit's two auxiliary bishops, Thomas Gumbleton and Walter Schoenherr, who promised their "prayers in this just cause." >For three years Anglicans and Lutherans have been holding international talks to bring about a closer mutual relationship. Now the two teams...
...with student apprentices in Arizona on schemes to redesign cities. Jean Piaget: eminent Swiss child psychologist. Gopi Krishna: Indian philosopher who has written about the evolution of man toward a new state of consciousness. The Lama Foundation: a commune devoted to the study of Eastern mysticism. *Ivan Illich: brilliant priest who believes in deschooling society but founded a school of his own in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Jacques Ellul: French historian and lay theologian of a Calvinist persuasion...