Word: superealism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense. Sweetback or Shaft are totally ruthless people, oppressed by whites but equally disgusted by the lack of effectiveness of black community and cultural leaders. They are agents who wish to be totally free, and are concerned solely with their personal vendettas against the rest of the world. Until Super Fly, the hardened Chester Himes cops of Cotton Comes to Harlem and Come Back Charleston Blue were the only colorful heros who also possessed social conscience and civic sense (though both efforts were sabotaged by, respectively, clumsy and cutesy direction...
...Super Fly has come, and it looks like there's a whole new breed of pop cult cat on our hands. Like those other fellows, cocaine pusher Priest is violent and sexually ravenous, but his violence is only what's necessary and his women get more than good service--love, and responsible entry into the man's most private worldly concerns...
...which there are plenty. Super Fly wants to land; tired of junk peddling, he hopes to make enough cash that he can escape from the double-cross world of crime to one where the options are more even and more open even for a black man (if he already has his money.) When Priest finds out that he can't escape at all--the Man won't let such a good seller go, and the Man happens to be also the Deputy Police Commissioner-Priest must use his wits and restrain his brawn, come out with a plan that...
...debut in international polo as captain of the Young England team, challenging Young America. Charles scored one goal and helped push the game into overtime before the Americans won, 5-4. The U.S.'s Bengy Toda, matched against the Prince, was impressed: "He was a tough player, super down-to-earth, very regular." The Prince offered another opinion. "Very disappointing," he said, ducking under Princess Alexandra's umbrella...
...Super-Right Canned...