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Lynch 1. David. born 1946, US film director; his work includes the films Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), and Mulholland Drive (2001) and the television series Twin Peaks (1990) 2. John, known as Jack Lynch. 1917--99, Irish statesman; prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1966--73; 1977--79) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``Actually, that was how we planned it,'' said ``head'' lyncher Paul DaSwitch. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon" and "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till"; the would-be lynchers during the 1957 Arkansas school integration in "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock"; and a lynch mob during neighborhood integration in "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed" (Blacks 333-39, 340, 346-48, 376-78). The highly publicized phase of the mass movement for civil rights began in 1955, the year lynchers murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi; the year Rosa Parks refused to sit where black people were supposed to sit on an Alabama city bus. |
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