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...from her mouth when she is upset about an oppressive media representation, became irritating after a while. Nonetheless, the video is relatively short (one hour), fast-paced, and filled with terrific clips from movies including "On the Beach," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Breakfast at Tiffany's." "The Wizard of Oz," "Frankenstein," and "Sunset Boulevard...
...sickness started right there." Powell began showing signs of insanity, and that was combined with drinking and drug problems. He was periodically confined to psychiatric hospitals, where he underwent electroshock therapy and was even sprayed with water laced with ammonia. For a few years in the late 1940s, the wizard saxophone player Jackie McLean, eight years younger than Powell, spent a lot of time as a kind of musical apprentice and all-purpose guardian for him. He'd take Powell to performing dates, get him together with musicians like Parker who still revered him, and generally make sure...
...attack both conservatives and liberals with equal glee, however, sets one on edge. The lack of moral center ultimately distracts. How can he be funny if I can't figure out which angle this joke came from? The same Jewish joke told by a rabbi and by the Grand Wizard of the KKK has different connotations...
Thom Robb is a reconstructed racist. He calls himself the national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eschewing the hoary title of Imperial Wizard. Indeed, the lower ranks have been defanged as well. There are no more Grand Dragons, no more Great Titans. Gone too are the robes and hoods. "We don't hate blacks," declares Robb, who assumed the leadership in 1989. "We just love whites...
...Klan leaders of Indiana and Illinois led a walkout from the Knights last month. This weekend they will stage an old- fashioned K.K.K. rally in Lafayette, Indiana, complete with robes and hoods. Neumann, with the blessing of his associates, has assumed the title Robb dislikes: Imperial Wizard. The rebel triumvirate maintains that most of the Knights are now with them...