Sentences with phrase «zoot suit»

For most people, the phrase «black renaissance» most likely conjures up images of zoot suits and brilliant black writers in Harlem or perhaps Chicago.

Pinstripes aren't just for mobsters rocking zoot suits anymore.

Pin stripes aren't just for mobsters rocking zoot suits anymore.

I saw Swingers for the first time before its dialogue became part of the national lexicon, before the whole swing dancing thing got out of hand and people in Sheboygan started wearing zoot suits and long - assed wallet chains.

I yearned for the sight of Dumbledore clad in the flamboyant purple zoot suit described in the novel's flashback to Tom Riddle in the orphanage and instead got a very unremarkable knockoff.

AMERICAN GLORY When we think of the black renaissance, we typically conjure images of bustling Harlem streets and flashy zoot suits alongside the black excellence of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.

The first film by a Chicano filmmaker to have been produced by a major studio, Zoot Suit kicks off BAM's larger series «¡ Sí Se Puede!

Soon after, at Sotheby's sale of the Evill / Frost Collection, Burra achieved a record price at auction when Zoot Suits, a work from 1948, went for # 1.8 m. Were the two things connected?

I also couldn't pick up any bass in Cherry Poppin» Daddy's «Zoot Suit Riot.»

If you are happy with one of the parties that presently exist, you can be a bore and say why — though I would hope people could be a bit more imaginative, because let's face it, the Democrats are a 1930s paradigm that fits in about as well as a zoot suit, and the Republicans are so splintered they seem to be an illusion of a viewpoint rather than the reality of it.

Meanwhile, Mr. Smith might be best known for his zoot suits complete with suspenders and pinstripes, picking strange political battles like a press conference denouncing the rapper Dwayne «Lil Wayne» Carter, and his somewhat surprising decision to seek City Hall's top job on the other side of the partisan aisle without actually changing his voter registration.

And the movie «La Bamba,» written and directed by Luis Valdez («Zoot Suit») and starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens and Esai Morales as his half - brother, takes advantage of both opportunities.

by Walter Chaw It's possible that Johnny Depp in a zoot suit, firing a Tommy gun from the running board of a vintage Ford, is so distractingly perfect an image that all other considerations are shunted to the soft shoulder — possible for the audience to only realize afterwards that there was nothing much of substance revealed about John Dillinger in Michael Mann's gorgeous Public Enemies.

These included the Zoot Suit Riots (top right); the whitewashing of América Tropical, a 1932 mural by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros (center); and the World War II incarceration of people of Japanese descent (bottom right).

Troy Michie's exhibition at Company Gallery alluded to the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943, when white servicemen in Los Angeles beat and stripped Californians of color, primarily Mexican - Americans, for the mere fact of the clothes they chose to wear.

Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald treat Barack and Michelle Obama to flora and fancy dress, while Troy Michie recalls the Zoot Suit Riots and Firelei Báez the fire of women in Harlem.

Troy Michie (Brooklyn, NY) Travel to El Paso towards the development of multi-disciplinary works inspired by the Zoot suit.

Support for travel to El Paso towards the development of multi-disciplinary works inspired by the Zoot suit

Drawing source material and inspiration from the culture and music of the Zoot Suit, Zazou, and Pachuco movements, these underground modes of expression share a culture of resistance in which fashion and identity create and construct a temporary notion of the self through style, costume, and ideology.

Screening: Zoot Suit at Brooklyn Academy of Music Zoot Suit, a 1981 film adapted from an earlier stage production, explores the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, when a group of Los Angeles policemen beat and stripped persons of color, primarily Chicanx ones, because they wore certain outfits.

The artist's interest in the power of language is a consistent theme in his work, from the opening words of the US constitution in We The People 2012, to vernacular expressions such as Real Deal and Zoot Suit 2014.

Now, trousers «should» be hitched somewhere just below the «natural» waist; whereas, to pick an example at the other extreme, zoot suits of the 30s and 40s hoisted trouser tops to just below the breast.