Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort at dialogue with society at large, such as that which Spike Lee has attempted to generate with his latest film Do the Right Thing, has got to be pursued now more than ever. Otherwise, today's subtler version of white racism will continue to go unnoticed, and more poor, uneducated Blacks will respond to their economic plight with the much publicized alternative that seems the easiest way out--turning to drugs...
...agenda for the summer of '89 seemed to be set early, as New Yorkers were introduced to the Spike Lee doctrine via his most recent film venture, Do the Right Thing. Reactions to the film ranged from the intellectual to the hysterical...
THIS summer, August brings cooler weather, but the race/leadership problem has not gone away. In a summer when Spike Lee urges audiences to "Do the Right Thing," no one is seriously asking what happens when Black leaders do the wrong thing...
Life, alas, is not a football game. It does not provide a goal line we can cross with cheers ringing in our ears, an end zone where we can spike the ball and do a victory dance. What it provides, in dizzying abundance, is one damned thing after another. This vividly expressed thought comes to us courtesy of Parenthood's Jason Robards, who plays Frank, the grandpaterfamilias of a clan he has considerable reason to wish he had not extended quite so extensively back when he was young and frisky...
...SPIKE Lee's Do the Right Thing is a disturbing movie...