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...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...
EQUAAL has held tables on the ethnic aspects of celebrating Columbus Day inthe U.S. and on gender issues involved inTuesday's presidential election. At the end ofNovember, the group will organize an outing to seeVisiting Lecturer Spike Lee's movie "Malcolm X,"to be followed by a roundtable discussion...
...hooded sweatshirts, flashes of jewelry -- turn up everywhere, from dance clubs to fashion layouts. Yves Saint Laurent produces golden belt buckles with his logo writ large, Public Enemy-style, and Karl Lagerfeld loads his Chanel models with enough baubles to sink M.C. Hammer into the ground like a stake. Spike's Joint in Tokyo (yes, that Spike) supplies Japanese trendies with film-related merchandise, from team jackets ($794) to the official Malcolm X baseball cap ($39) -- the one indispensable part of any streetwise uniform, a kind of overseas emblem for the whole rap army...
Since 1990, the result of student activism is a department led by well-known scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., DuBois professor of the humanities, one which attracts such star talent as filmmaker Spike Lee and novelist Jamaica Kincaid...
...witnessed operas on such subjects as Mahatma Gandhi (Philip Glass's Satyagraha) and Richard Nixon (John Adams' Nixon in China). The latest example is Malcolm Little, known best as the black-power firebrand Malcolm X, who was gunned down in New York City 27 years ago. Spike Lee's already controversial film Malcolm X is due to open next month, but before there was Lee there was composer Anthony Davis and his powerful, chilling opera X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, first produced in Philadelphia in 1984-85 and now released...