Word: streaks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead...
...Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger...
...Booth has been playing so well in the past few weeks,” Oren said. “He’s dropped a total of three or four points in the last few matches.” HARVARD 9, CORNELL 0The Crimson continued its shutout streak by defeating the Big Red (1-4, 0-3 Ivy) without dropping a single game in the process. The toughest match occurred in the third position, where freshman Colin West had to win a close third game, 10-8, to clinch the victory. Senior Siddharth Suchde, playing in the first position...
...type of game that he calls,” said Stone, referring to Friday night zebra Dean Gilbert. “I don’t know if they’re used to that.”IN OTHER ACTIONEven though the Crimson extended its nation-best winning streak to eight games in sweeping a Top 10 squad, don’t expect a bump in the new rankings, as all the top teams took care of business this weekend. No. 1 Mercyhurst took two games from Princeton, the second victory a 1-0 overtime nail-biter on Saturday...
...That lone win merely came against the No. 1 ranked team in the country and could prove to be the upset of the season in collegiate women’s hockey. One week ago, the Bulldogs shut out Wisconsin, 2-0, snapping the Badgers’ 26-game unbeaten streak...