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Before his epiphany, Benedict's Scrooge is a character reminiscent of a man clearing his throat and phlegming up mucous. The phlegm is all gone by the end, and a jolly, giddy, bright and shiny Scrooge emerges to love and be loved...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Wacky, Happy Carol | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

...went to Adams Dining Hall for lunch, communicated with Jane the checker through a series of gestures: touch hand to throat, grin sheepishly to lament absence of I.D., point finger at the Adams House resident guesting...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Make Some Noise, If You Can | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

Malcolm's style was cooler than King's, more lawyerly than evangelical; its bitter logic cut like a knife at the throat of complacent white America. Even in the time of Malcolm's most toxic demagoguery -- defaming liberals as white devils, civil rights heroes as Uncle Toms and Jews for sapping "the very lifeblood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel" -- his steely charisma beguiled the white media. In Harlem he was something more than a diversion: he was the prophet of the black male underclass. "It was manhood time," says Al Freeman Jr., who played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elevation of MALCOLM X | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...that I can't return it just because I opened the Mylar packaging,) What were you thinking? Oh, wait, I know--you explained it all to Newsweek: Sex is supposed to broaden our tolerance for alternative ways of life. By showing us a woman holding a knife to your throat (page 8), or two men raping you (Page 32)? Please, spare...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: An Open Letter to Madonna | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

...business suit ordering men around--feminism?--but for every "Express Yourself" there is a "Hanky Panky" ("I don't want you to thank me/Just spank me..."). And for all your talk about how the sex you portray is all based on consent--well, the knife at your throat above doesn't look like consent, and, for that matter, neither do the ropes. So let's call a spade a spade: You're a fraud...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: An Open Letter to Madonna | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

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