Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nation has gone "downtown," why are the police so concerned? According to Richie Perez, the founder of the Young Lords, the police ignore gang activity as long as the gangs are fighting each other. Their greatest fear, says Perez, is that "street gangs will become politicized." King Tone describes his dedication to this cause, saying "I'm willing to die to change my people's condition." Responding to the arrests of "Operation Crown," Tone states "that's power-when they arrest you for nothing but being...
...Amor de rey! Amor do reina!" (Love of the king! Love of the queen!) and "crown" (middle and ring fingers held in, other three extended) being thrown around all over the place, on top of some heavy beats provided by Sasha Costanza-Chock, who mixed the soundtrack. King Tone, the current leader of the Nation, then talks about his own sense of transformation and that of the Nation, saying that it forces young people to ask themselves "Who are You? If you don't know who you are, you don't know where the hell you're going." Tone took...
...nation has gone "downtown," why are the police so concerned? According to Richie Perez, the founder of the Young Lords, the police ignore gang activity as long as the gangs are fighting each other. Their greatest fear, says Perez, is that "street gangs will become politicized." King Tone describes his dedication to this cause, saying "I'm willing to die to change my people's condition." Responding to the arrests of "Operation Crown," Tone states "that's power--when they arrest you for nothing but being...
...That the tone and diction of Elegy have an almost prosaic feel is not an insult to (NOT READABLE) Thus, Jones' long lines and frequent enjambment aid his devotion to his text and to his images. Well-crafted, careful expressions then carry the rhythm and pulse of the pieces and allow the poems to remain true and real...
...depicting with clarity and honesty a friendship between two young women, Dream Life shifts nicely from a light, even funny naturalism, into a more poetic and ultimately more troubling tone, never glamorized and always compelling. It's definitely more than a dismissive wave at two filles paumees, and the precise details of life on les limites (e.g. cutting out magazine pictures to sell as postcards) fuel nobler purposes. I suppose the film could lose some minutes, but, come on, cut Zonca some slack...