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...outing to Grendel's on Jan. 30 was supposedto be a relaxing way to kick off the weekend withfriends, said McCreary, who is one of the GSEstudents who was part of Davis's party...
...dictatorial President Moussa Traore had run the country dismally for 23 years. "I made a coup," says Toure, "but sometimes you have to give a quick kick to democracy." Rare among Africa's military bosses, A.T.T. had the courage to return his country to civilian control. "I watched officers my age in other countries take over," he says. "These men came in to save their countries, then stayed 20 years. But when a country is well managed, the constitution is respected, no captain can come out of his barracks. The vaccination against a coup is good government...
...fellow actors don't appear to be gettingquite as big a kick out of it. Tarantino's verypresence on stage seems to put them--and theaudience--on edge. It isn't really Quentin'sfault--it's just that Wait Until Dark is aperiod piece, a clever, understand brew ofHitchcockian suspense and late-'60s protofeminism.It hearkens back to the good old days, when drugdealers carried knives, not guns, and when WestSide Story was still considered gritty...
...political journalism, magazine articles and government classes. We pick them up for a few months, use them, talk about them, wait for William Safire to tell us where they came from, and move on. "Identity politics" is one of these phrases. But unlike political correctness, identity politics refuses to kick the bucket just...
Watching the videotape of our simulated attacks afterwards, we still laughed. Now, though, we laughed as one woman got in that gratuitous kick at her downed aggressor; as another screamed at the top of her lungs; as another hammered the helmet right off Darth. We reveled in such displays of aggression and victory, in the disparity between a five-foot-tall female and burly HUPD officers. I don't want to speak for the entire class, but I think we all felt a little more confident and powerful. I know...