Word: crouching
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...crab and crouch in the brush, low to the ground in the woods of Michigan. Deep, deep in the woods. Patient, silent, dressed as trees, we stalk our prey. Not the mighty bear or the trophy buck but an animal far more dangerous, and dumber than a bucket of rocks. The poacher...
...ability of minstrelsy to take many forms remained the center of the discussion for the rest of the evening. Panelist Stanley Crouch, an author and cultural analyst, said that the problem of minstrelsy prevails in media representations of all marginal communities...
...dumb blonde, that's the female version of blackface....The Italian who's always eating pasta and shooting people, that's the Italian version of blackface," Crouch said...
Besides Lee and Crouch, the other panelists were W.J.T. Mitchell, a professor of English and art history at the University of Chicago, photographer Carrie Mae Weems, and television producer Octavia Hudson. Alvin Poussant, pyshchiatrist and associate dean at Harvard Medical School, mediated the discussion...
...associate professor of linguistics at Berkeley, will make him a hero to the black-bashing crowd. Black, smart and only 34, McWhorter is being touted by his publisher as a maverick "more angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more forward-looking than Stanley Crouch." McWhorter says he's uncomfortable being associated with authors acclaimed by white conservatives and slammed by many blacks--but, hey, it goes with the territory. If you're a self-described "proper-talking black guy who's had all the advantages," you've got to expect other blacks to be outraged...