Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Knee-deep in sheet music and charts, and surrounded by cinema heavyweights, Waits can't envision returning to his self-imposed exile in New York. "It's impossible now. One from the Heart is going to keep me a love slave till February...
...separate from that." Bland relishes a good smile:" (The delegates) they're like this, see (crosses his arms in front of him) handcuffed." He doesn't listen to the suggestion that the push to free delegates stinks of hypocrisy, that the same people who assailed Carter as a tyrannical slave merchant originally backed the reform which gave more power to the primary voter, that if Kennedy were the probable choice, this debate would not have surfaced...
Still the gamier, scandalous side of presidential families most concerns and entertains Americans. Thomas Jefferson, that prince of the Enlightenment, left the 19th century muttering about his illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, and about his nephews Lilburne and Isham Lewis, who murdered a slave on the Kentucky frontier. Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel was widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their...
This bastard son of Monty Python's Life of Brian had possibilities: Dudley Moore, fresh from his conquest of Bo Derek, plays Herschel, a comic biblical figure who never quite made it into the Bible. Instead he meets a fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should...
...youngest of four boys. Her grandfather, considered addled by the villagers, tries to exchange his infant son for a girl baby. On feet maimed by binding, the mother hobbles off to retrieve her child, raging all the while at her husband: "Dead man, trading a son for a slave. Idiot." It is this indomitable woman who had forced him to leave the village and seek work in America, to become a Sojourner on the Gold Mountain: "Make money. Don't stay here eating...