Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amistad Is Freed For Now A federal judge lets Spielberg's slave ship pic sail onto screens Wednesday--but he's still considering the plagiarism suit against the Oscar favorite...
...making Amistad, his forthcoming film about a 19th century slave rebellion, Steven Spielberg faced the difficult task of shaping a coherent narrative out of history, always a tricky business, given the manifold ambiguities and contradictions of human behavior. A similar task awaits whoever gets to adjudicate a recently filed lawsuit alleging that Spielberg and his colleagues are, to put it baldly, plagiarists--that they swiped their vision of the Amistad tale from Echo of Lions, a little-known historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud...
...history: In 1839, Africans aboard a Spanish slave ship named the Amistad escaped their chains and killed most of the crew. Two months later, the ship was found drifting off the shore of Long Island, N.Y., where the mutineers were taken into custody. Former President John Quincy Adams ended up arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court the case for giving the Africans their freedom...
Does China's president, Jiang Zemin, truly believe China freed Tibet from slavery, as he claims in his interview with Time [WORLD, Oct. 27]? And should the murder of 1.2 million Tibetans be known as the emancipation of Tibet? No Tibetan was a slave to Buddhism when the Dalai Lama governed Tibet, but the Tibetans remaining in their native land are surely slaves to China. TASHI GYALTSEN Calgary...
...social therapy doled out to interest groups." We must be grateful for the rude health and increasing diversity of popular culture, which is both more accountable to the public and less so to social engineers of any stripe. American Canvas repeatedly points out the obvious, that pop is slave instead to "the marketplace." A smart aleck could point out that "the marketplace" here seems to be a pejorative for "an audience...