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...northern part of the state and slurred to Urb in the south, can mean an urchin, while for some Baltimoreans, an Ay-rab is a bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts or Harlem, conk means to straighten a person's hair with a lye solution, reports Cassidy, as well as carrying the more universal connotation of hitting "someone hard...
...goes so far as to suggest that ultimately the victims may bring their fate upon themselves, subconsciously provoking the murder and making it a kind of willed suicide. Poussaint notes, as do many others, that the easy availability of handguns gives power to the powerless. What the Colt six- shooter was to the Wild West is what the "Saturday-night special" is to the ghetto: the great equalizer...
...century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides of a child's tin train, theater tickets, cigarette packs, fragments of type and stenciled numbers, snatches from headlines and posters, feathers, wisps of cotton wool and gauze for atmospheric effect, wheels, burlap, glass, photos, a shooter's target with a neat group punched in the bull's-eye and, after his emigration to England on the eve of World War II, part of a food-ration book--are emblems of their changing times, sharp and pathetic by turns...
...moving shadows that served as a crash course in their adoptive country's history, behavior, values, ideals and follies. A maiden defends her honor; Jack Johnson defends a heavyweight title; firemen career through city streets toward a blazing house; bandits rob a train, and the sheriff fires his six-shooter right at the audience. True love conquers all prejudices in a land with a built-in happy ending. In the universal language of images, the movies told over and over the All-American story of assimilation and triumph -- the alchemy of the melting...
REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS of Clint Eastwood? The days when Josey Wales would take out half an army with his six shooter? Those violent spaghetti westerns of yesteryear were an original departure from traditional western themes. Instead of the good guy in white, they had the gunslinger as anti-hero. You also had a lot of fun watching Clint quietly blow people away with style. Those were the days...