Word: watermelon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peebles did indeed make a film. Story of a Three-Day Pass, about a black G.I.'s weekend with a white French girl, became a hit in France and a modest success in the U.S. Hollywood began hustling him. Columbia came up with a black-white satire called Watermelon Man, a dark-toned comedy about an obnoxious white man who turns black. "I thought I had to make Watermelon Man in order to do the films I really wanted to do," Van Peebles said. Sweetback was just a camera cue away...
There was not much plot in Brautigan's 1967 bestseller, Trout Fishing In America, or In Watermelon Sugar (1968), which were not so much novels as paper bags full of disassociated whimsy. By contrast, The Abortion has a real story. The heroine is Vida, who brings a manuscript to the library one night. Her book is about her gorgeous body, in which she feels uncomfortable. The hero makes her feel comfortable. They live together in the back of the library, and she bakes chocolate cookies, which the hero gives to old ladies who bring manuscripts at three...
RONALD v. DELLUMS. They ate watermelon and cheered a tap dancer at Ron Dellums' victory party in prideful put-on, as a black militant triumphed at the polls. The new Democratic Congressman from California, one of twelve blacks elected to Congress last week, offered his thanks to "my public relations expert, Spiro T. Agnew." His comment was far from gratuitous, for when the Vice President attacked Dellums as an "out-and-out radical," Agnew rattled the voters in the white liberal community of Berkeley and the black ghettos of Oakland into the voting booths. Democrat Dellums, 34, social worker...
...terribly unconvincing actor; St. Jacques is a splendid dramatic actor who comes on as a melodramatic heavy in such a farce. Everything that happens is supposed to be very, very black because the money is hidden in a bale of Mississippi cotton, and the pursuing detectives crash into a watermelon stand, and everybody goes around saying "nigger" and "Is that black enough for you?" Biggest joke: when the detectives discover that a white man was in on the heist, Cambridge rumbles, "Honkies in the woodpile...
...Keep Order Without Killing" [May 25]: Some years ago as a youth, I was a member of raiding parties. The object of our raids was not banks, schools or such, but outlying watermelon patches. The "Pigs," in those days, were grizzled farmers armed with their trusty 12-gaugers loaded with rock salt. Never heard of anyone getting killed, but it was several days before some of us could sit down comfortably. Anyway, such tactics effectively protected valuable property and maintained law and order...