Word: quentin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seen Pulp Fiction? Want to see it again? Af-Am 187y: "Black Cinema as Genre-From Blaxpoitation to Quentin Tarantino" includes movies like Boyz 'n the Hood, Girl 6, and Superfly. Students are expected to "read" the movies, analyzing them in an effort to explore gender, race and society. The class meets Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m. and experience in film theory is recommended, but not required...
...north from Los Angeles to stage a protest in Berkeley's historic Sproul Plaza in hopes of ostracizing the college sophomore--if not ejecting him altogether from the University of California system. "This isn't a guy who should be going to Berkeley. He should be going to San Quentin," said an irate Conway. "We're going to do everything possible to get his ass kicked out of Berkeley and make his life as miserable as possible...
...will be reinforced in prison." King was involved in a racial disturbance between Anglo and Hispanic prisoners in 1995. The Houston Chronicle reported last week that he sent letters from prison proclaiming race hatred and allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-supremacist gang founded in California's San Quentin State Prison in the 1960s. Texas prison officials declared that the tattoo found on Berry indicates membership in a white-supremacist organization. An ex-general of the Aryan Brotherhood sniffed that his group would never have recruited petty thieves like King, Berry and Brewer: "We recruit criminals...
...play as an antifascist allegory to feel its impact as an old-fashioned protest drama, which scores like a young heavyweight with no footwork but a crushing left hand. What's amazing is how shocking the play's depiction of human brutality remains even today, 60 years and several Quentin Tarantino films later. For Williams, the discipline and the poetry were yet to come. But he already had the gift...
...film offers seven characters in search of a spanking. The main miscreant is Dedee (Christina Ricci), 16-year-old tornado-park trash from Louisiana. Think of all the black widows and blond minxes from old film noir, give them the mouth of a Quentin Tarantino tough, and you have Dedee--not only in your face but down your throat. In the film's first 15 minutes, she desecrates her stepfather's grave, runs away from home with her one-testicled boyfriend, dumps him to visit her gay half brother, seduces his boyfriend and declares she's pregnant...