Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates used his pull to bring in Harvard's most famous visiting faculty member, filmmaker Spike Lee. And Princeton University scholar Cornel R. West, author of "Colored People," joined the faculty in another coup for Harvard last year...
...think it is a very good first step, and it holds real promise to bring that insidious process to an end over time." Unconvinced, the plaintiffs have engaged a new lawyer -- former CIA analyst Michael P. Kelley -- and hope to persuade U.S. District Judge Albert Bryan this Friday to spike the agreement and send the agency back to the bargaining table...
...committee of black entertainers and athletes, including Danny Glover, Spike Lee and Magic Johnson, took out ads in Daily Variety to support Van Peebles pere et fils: "We laud their efforts and their courage for making a movie that sends a message of strength, dignity and empowerment to the African American community -- especially to our youth." This was in response to an earlier ad, declaring Panther "a two-hour lie," that was placed in Daily Variety by David Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a neoconservative outfit in Los Angeles. Horowitz, a reformed leftie who worked...
...Panthers are not anti-white, but anti-oppression. In a scene that refers directly to Spike Lee's "Malcolm X," a couple of young white students ask Newton if they can help with the Party. Unlike Malcolm X, who dismissed a similarly well-meaning white student with a brusque "No," Newton takes the time to explain kindly to the students that it is important for Blacks to do this for themselves...
...Still, "Spike and Mike's" remains a terrific annual affair, bringing creative, original work to crowds that love them. Oh yeah, you also get in for free if you bring your refrigerator decorated with the Spike and Mike flyer to the show...