Word: shaft
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...Shaft--in the Dunster dining hall at 8 and 10 p.m. Admissions...
Baadasssss, as in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which Melvin Van Peebles (Mario's father) made in 1971. Sex-sated and X-rated, Sweetback trumpeted the bustling era of blaxploitation films. Their heroes were no lilies of the field. They dealt drugs (Super Fly) or tracked down drug dealers (Shaft). Short on artistry but long on verve, these violent epics were significant for the same reason they remained, in every sense, a minority entertainment: they were movies made not only for blacks but, often, by them. African-American filmmakers had kicked their foot through the industry's back door...
...building lived up to its sorry reputation as flames swept through the top floors, forcing the evacuation of 200 people. One American and one Soviet fireman were treated for smoke inhalation. The conflagration, the third to break out since 1977, is believed to have started accidentally in an elevator shaft before spreading to the upper floors and roof...
...disturbances recall the 1970s controversy surrounding so-called black- exploitation movies, a tradition of gangster tales that goes back to Shaft. Civic leaders complain that such movies glamourize crime to an audience that can ill afford the extra temptation. "It plays on the minds of young blacks who are already in trouble," declared the Rev. James Dixon of the Northwest Community Baptist Church in Houston...
...HAMPSHIRE(64): Jeff Carr 8-11 0-0 18; Eric Thielen 3-7 1-3 7: Shaft Lewis 6-12 0-0 12; Bryant Davis 0-4 2-4 2; Bob Cummins 4-8 4-5 12; Tommy MacDonald 4-11 1-2 13; John Perry 0-1 0-0 0; Doug Lang...