Word: toussaint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus is the shop owner's daughter, trapped not only by place, time and economic circumstance but also by her gender. Lorraine Toussaint, a major star waiting for discovery, embodies erotic power and deep pain. The final words of Matura's play are lifted straight from Synge. Toussaint makes them agonizingly her own, proving anew that English is not just a cultural artifact but a potent instrument for use by any artist...
Just, please, don't dignify Ice-T's contribution with the word sedition. The past masters of sedition -- men like George Washington, Toussaint-Louverture, Fidel Castro or Mao Zedong, all of whom led and won armed insurrections -- would be unimpressed by Cop Killer and probably saddened. They would shake their heads and mutter words like "infantile" and "adventurism." They might point out that the cops are hardly a noble target, being, for the most part, honest working stiffs who've got stuck with the job of patrolling ghettos ravaged by economic decline and official neglect...
...produced by London impresario Cameron Mackintosh but mounted by Americans around the work of Louis Jordan; Jelly's Last Jam, featuring Jelly Roll Morton music and tap dancers Gregory Hines and Savion Glover; and The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club, a review starring New Orleans songwriter Allen Toussaint...
...idea that European culture is oppressive in and of itself is a fallacy that can survive only among the fanatical and the ignorant. The moral and intellectual conviction that inspired Toussaint-Louverture to focus the rage of the Haitian slaves and lead them to freedom in 1791 came from his reading of Rousseau and Mirabeau. When thousands of voteless, propertyless workers the length and breadth of England met in their reading groups in the 1820s to discuss republican ideas and discover the significance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, they were seeking to unite themselves by taking back the meanings...
...ALLEN TOUSSAINT COLLECTION (Reprise). The king of New Orleans R. and B. -- one of the great all-time musical figures, in fact, in a town where legends come around as regularly as lunchtime. This is a package of 16 solid sides, including From a Whisper to a Scream and What Do You Want the Girl to Do?, culled from his middle-period, major-label work. The very definition of funk; if you don't know Toussaint, your ears have never been baptized...