Word: cleaver
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Congress of Racial Equality wished him "a lengthy stay in jail"; his old Black Panther comrades ignored him altogether. Such was the cold welcome given to onetime Black Militant Eldridge Cleaver, 40, who stepped off a plane from Paris at New York's Kennedy Airport after seven years of self-exile in Cuba, Algeria and France. Facing charges of parole violation and assault with intent to commit murder, stemming from a 1968 Shootout with police in Oakland, Calif., Cleaver was immediately arrested by FBI agents and flown to San Diego. "It's a new situation now. Black people...
...their superiority to one another. Sometimes, as in the days of chivalrous knights, men jousted for the hand of the other's maiden--indirect rape. More often, however, rape has not been clothed so discreetly with societal justification, rather, it has openly defied society's laws and lawmakers. Eldrige Cleaver in Soul on Ice explained what motivated him to rape this...
Bruce and his father didn't see too much of Cleaver after he left that night in August, although they ran into his wife once and were startled to see her face covered by a big butterfly-wing bandage. "I bet Cleaver hit her," Bruce said later. That made Cleaver an even more confusing figure: rapist, convict, talented author, a man seeking to return to the country he denounced, a man promoting a pair of pants to give a new revelation to our sexuality...
...pants, Cleaver is still looking for a manufacturer. He doesn't know when they'll be on the market. "Already I've got a few names for them, though--the Whip, the Snake, or in France, the Mauvais Garcon...
...Eldridge Cleaver sips wine in a Paris apartment and talks about the new pants he's designed: "What's wrong with getting an erection and letting people know about...