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Smith's own experience as a seasoned "slam" artist is evident: her delivery of her own piece is remarkable. The viewer quite literally gets chills watching Smith's fury overtake her face during the most powerful part of the poem, when the undertaker fights off an urge to "take [the mother] down / to the chilly room, open the bag" and confront her with the remains of her son, so she can grasp the reality of his death, "wither finally, and move...
Note: Saul Stacy Williams, Nuyorican Poets Cafe 1996 Grand Slam Champion, also performed at the exhibition, but a clip from his upcoming film Slam! Slam! was not available for review...
They are all, God knows, energetic, and their never-a-dull-moment playing commands our astonished attention. You almost feel that if you let it wander for an instant, someone would reach out from the screen and slam you with a two-by-four. At the same time, you are aware that they are shoving this melodrama of class and manners uncomfortably close to farce and robbing the story's ending of its quietly stated force...
...conceal their glee. But Marv's misery is not over yet. Not only could he still face a year in jail or a $2,500 fine, but also Sally Donnelly, TIME Washington correspondent, reports that his accuser has already retained a lawyer for further action: "It's a slam dunk," says Donnelly, "that she'll file a civil suit against Albert...
Other highlights of the reading list: "Intimacy, labor and class: Ideologies of feminine sexuality in the Punk slam dance;" "Guido: Fashioning an Italian-American Youth Style;" and "Jocks and Freaks: The symbolic structure of the expression of social interaction among American high school students...