Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capacity crowd at the Loeb Janus Cinema last night bought their popcorn and Diet Cokes, soundly booed a blurb for Whitney Houston's new movie, and settled in for Spike Lee's new 3-hour-and-21-minute epic...
...least that's what Harvard lecturer Spike Lee wants...
Shabazz's remarks coincided with today's opening of a film about her husband directed by Visiting Lecturer Spike...
...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...
...sexual overtones of the second section do serve as a lead-in to the next, in which Graney explores women's roles as sex objects. No longer playful, the women now strut coolly about the stage in their tight velveteen dresses and red spike heels. The sexy entourage is periodically interrupted, however, by a woman who stumbles in her shoes, tugs at her dress, or collapses into a flailing tantrum. The women seem torn between the power of their sexual identity and the pain they must endure to maintain...