Word: klansmen
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...opera based on Springer's talk show. A version of the opera debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland this summer and is being reworked for an April opening in London. The new opera is expected to include such crowd pleasers as a kick line of Ku Klux Klansmen and a diaper fetishist. One hopes that this newfound respectability won't ruin Springer's reputation...
DIED. LAWRENCE RAINEY SR., 79, former Mississippi sheriff acquitted in 1967 of conspiracy in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner; of cancer; in Meridian, Miss. The case, in which seven Ku Klux Klansmen were convicted, inspired the film Mississippi Burning...
...lays in archival photos or documents and draws around them. This approach reaches a climax at the end of "King" II, with a remarkable seven-page montage dedicated to the "I Have a Dream" speech. Photos of the crowd on the Mall, smeared electronically, mixed with historical photos of Klansmen and lynchings bring the book to as much of a visual boil as the words to that famous speech...
...remembers everything about that day," Jones said. "But when it comes to that night, he gets fuzzy." Blanton's alibis shifted from his being in various restaurants to simply driving around Birmingham. The state contended that Blanton met with other Klansmen Sept. 13 under a bridge on the Cahaba River and made the bomb that detonated at the church. The jury, composed of eight white women, three black women and one black man, agreed, and gave Blanton four life sentences...
...green heads, soon come to resemble human beings in compromising positions. Morbid scenes of violence show lynchings, detached limbs, captivity and fear. Ali’s fine-grained gouache techniques allow her to emphasize disturbing minute details, like Confederate flags on the belt buckles of figures resembling Klu Klux Klansmen, and to depict race issues without using black and white...