Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Eyes on the Prize (PBS, 1987). The history of the early civil rights movement recaptured in six compelling hours. Henry Hampton's documentary series, using news footage from the 1950s and '60s and narrated by Julian Bond, was a masterpiece of eloquent reportage...
...Life (1980). An austere civil servant, terminally ill, looks back in anger on his self-thwarting days and sees, too late, that he has been surrounded by decency and affection. Irish playwright Hugh Leonard traced delicate and complex patterns of marriage, friendship and that old indefinable, love...
Dreamgirls (1981). Michael Bennett, creator of A Chorus Line, shaped this propulsive story of black entertainers fighting for integrity while entering the mainstream. It suggested that key civil rights gains came when white youths accepted black music as "theirs." Jennifer Holliday gave the musical performance of the decade as a gutsy gospel-blues shouter...
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (1988). What lifted this biography to new heights was Branch's researches into the origins of the Southern black churches and their influence in inspiring and organizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights revolution. Volume II is in the works...
Collor used the position shrewdly to create a national reputation for himself as the "hunter of maharajas" -- elite civil servants who earn exorbitant salaries, often for no-show jobs. Collor launched a campaign against the practice by setting a ceiling on officials' salaries and restricting use of state funds for the purchase of cars, houses and other amenities. The move struck a chord among ordinary Brazilians, who resent the privileges of the bureaucracy and its suffocating inefficiency...