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Four current undergraduates competed: junior Norman Bellingham, a 1988 gold medalist in the kayak pairs who was denied a medal this years; senior rower Snorre Lorgen, who competed for Norway; senior swimmer Kris Singleton, who competed in the 100 meter butterfly; and senior swimmer Simon Wainwright, a 200 meter butterfly racer...
Besides Lorgen, Harvard athletes competing for countries other than the United States were Singleton (U.S. Virgin Islands), Wainwright (Great Britain) and Nick Sweeney '92, who competed in the discus for Ireland. Harvard was also represented in track by former Crimson superstar Meredith Rainey '90 in the 800 meter...
Harvard sent 19 athletes in all to Barcelona this summer, including current undergraduate Norman D. Bellingham '94, who placed fourth in the 500-meter kayak singles. Among the 19 werethree undergraduates who represented foreigncountries--rower Snorre Lorgen '93, swimmerKristan B. Singleton '93 and swimmer Simon J.Wainwright '93--who competed for Norway, the U.S.Virgin Islands and Great Britain, respectively...
...director of Boomerang, "many screenwriters find it difficult to get beyond race." Then, too, the zeitgeist was changing. For all his street sass and gutter gargle, Murphy is basically a middle-class star, closer to Bill Cosby than to the new wave of African-American filmmakers (Spike Lee, John Singleton) and rapmasters (all those hot Ices). Their marketable anger made Eddie look timid, irrelevant, a hipper but still compromised version of the old Negro clown -- a white man's black...
...wave of Black filmmakers enters the motion picture industry, more and more movies depicting ghetto life are reaching the big screen. Despite the artistic success of directors such as spike Lee and John Singleton though, many filmmakers still fail to present a credible, sympathetic portrait of inner city life. Dealing with life, love and moral issues in the ghetto is hard--and even the best offerings often seem cliched, parodies of what they wish to portray...