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...strung together by lengthy chord progressive choruses, often spelled by a soft interlude to add to dramatic effect. This album actually reveals the diversity of this typically "heavy" group. The 48-second "Lucky," which continues on the last track as "Lucky Time," gives a respite from the pumped up slam in the first half of the album, but this mellowing effect is countered by the unintelligible "500,000 Scovilles" which leads into one of the album's biggest successes, "What Can I Tell...
...take two trips. Yo mama is so old, I told her to act her age and the bitch died. Yo mama is so stupid, it takes her two hours to watch 60 Minutes. Jokes like this may be off limits, but papas are fair game when Amazon Slam, an all-woman poetry slam kicks off tonight. The evening also includes comedy from Michele Balan and Diva Mama 7:30 p.m., Ryles, 212 Hampshire St., Inman Square...
...Slam has a message of desperate do-gooding. It dares to say that education helps. That poetry can teach killers a saving sweetness. That words matter. Even--especially--four-letter ones, when a gifted loser fashions them into images illuminated by the lightning of his rage and fear...
Saul Williams is rarely at a loss for words. Aside from giving a vital voice to the newly revived spoken-word scene, the Slam star has talked nonstop about the movie at film festivals since it won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance last January. Nevertheless, the actor was nearly dumbstruck at Cannes, where the picture scored two more awards. As he walked with director Marc Levin, an elderly Frenchwoman approached him and started to cry. "It was amazing," recalls Levin. "She said she had been in the Resistance as a teenager and had already seen the movie twice because...
...With Slam's surprise festival success, Williams has been flooded with offers--unfortunately, most of them calling for him to play dope dealers. Instead of cashing in, he is writing a new book of verse and his own script. Following the lead of actor-singer Paul Robeson, Williams hopes to become a multimedia sensation. "Robeson followed his heart to get closer to the hearts of other people," he says. Good words to live...