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...gold digger who's already a little tired of the priapic effect she has on men. McKinney, though her signature character is frequently described as a child-woman, didn't play at being a grown-up. She was one: born to be, doomed to be. She embodied the primal w-o-m-a-n: Eve, Jezebel and her own creamy self...
...live my own life. "On the movie's terms, this is only an imitation of life, a sham citizenship, and Peola will pay for it. After Delilah dies, of a broken heart, Peola appears at the funeral and, in one of the cinema's primal weepie tropes, throws herself at the casket. Perhaps we are meant to find Peola guilty of matricide. But in Washington's mien and method, we can't help sympathizing with her impulse. Her mother was the stay-back past of black polity; she is the get-going future...
...washboard, a djembe and a myriad of other instruments appeared onstage. Mellow Beatles covers provided background noise as excited groupies mulled about, unruffled by the delay and fraught with anticipation. When the band finally made their way onstage, the audience was assaulted by a frenzy of percussion and a primal howling that could only mean one thing: Rusted Root was back in Boston...
...version of the Crusades. “Philosophical combat with Christians is too easy. In the proverbial battle of wits, they’re unarmed” said HSS President Ram C. Gowda ’02. “Paintball was much cooler; we got to savor the primal joy that comes from dodging your enemy’s shots and plugging him in the chest...
...Every Harvard student today is supposed to do three things before he graduates: Pee on the John Harvard statue, have sex in Widener and run Primal Scream. Did you complete all three tasks...