Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From almost every corner last week, Ed Muskie was warned about the problem that Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, would create for him. If it wasn't Brzezinski himself, it was that damnable job that kept getting in the way of Secretaries of State. Unless, of course, like Kissinger, one controlled both jobs...
...undergraduate parking lot on the corner of Western Avenue and Storrow Drive closed permanently yesterday because of growing vandalism and theft...
...globulin shots just to make sure? You won't get it, don't worry, his friends were told. He hoped his friends wouldn't get "it." Elsie's could not be seen from his bed, but no matter; the roast beef specials would wait, wait in the small, cold corner of his cranium, along with Bartley burgers and egg rolls...
Hudlin's second effort, Street Corner Stories (1977), a portrait of Black street corner society and a film that has received significant international attention, holds together less well than Black at Yale. It is an example of blues cinema, a visual answer to blues music, which draws the viewer into its story; because of its new approach it is worth seeing. But this documentation of a series of conversations at a street corner store between working class Blacks lacks cohesiveness. The viewer believes what he is seeing is important but is frustrated by what seems to be a lack...
This film is touted because of Hudlin's "un-compromising documentation of Black American speech," indeed an important part of the movie. Nonetheless, Street Corner Stories is an excruciatingly slow movie. After being enraptured by Black at Yale, the viewer may want to stay to see more of this very talented filmmaker's work. He may get much from this film, but only if he is somewhat indulgent...