Word: tribesman
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Responding to a question about the small numberof minorities on the show, Franken said, "We'relooking at the moment at several Puerto Ricans,three Orientals and a Mung tribesman...Minoritiesjust aren't funny. Am I right...
However valid the charge against the women in Lee's earlier films, it is misplaced in Jungle Fever. In a "war council," black women discuss the lure of white men and the hierarchy of skin tone. "I'm going for a true tribesman," one woman says. Another (played by Lonette McKee), deemed more attractive to whites and blacks because she has light skin and Caucasian features, decries her isolation from both worlds...
...their target. Although bodyguards killed several of the assailants, Saddam escaped with a bullet in his left leg. In the glorified words of his own hagiography -- the truth is less dramatic -- he carved out the bullet himself with a razor dipped in iodine, then disguised himself as a Bedouin tribesman, swam across the Tigris River, stole a donkey and fled across the desert to Syria. He was captured and jailed, but supposedly word of his adventures reached Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was then a charismatic exponent of pan-Arabism. Nasser got Saddam transferred to Cairo, and became...
Harrison Ngau, a Kayan tribesman in Malaysian Borneo, has endured imprisonment, house arrest and government harassment over the past three years. His "crime": helping Borneo's indigenous people try to halt the rampant logging that is destroying their way of life and some of earth's most ancient tropical forests...