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Rap videos: In Los Angeles, at first, voters were left to look for inspiration to Arsenio and other pop icons: actor Edward James Olmos, who wielded a broom and a Dumpster in South-Central L.A.; or Oprah Winfrey, who has her own longstanding education crusade, or Public Enemy, whose savage rap videos warned of urban rage long before the "firebell" in the L.A. night.
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The challenge for TV-and the political elites who respond so slavishly to it-is to stay on the story, to answer that "firebell" in the night when there are no longer any fires.
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Meanwhile, the white men in suits were having their own meetings, and to get the attention of their colleagues they paid a bunch of money to create something called “Newspaper Next,” which is supposed to be the firebell in the night to wake up the complacent in the newspaper business.
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And the aftermath will be shaped in part by how television responds to the problem of race in America -- that "firebell in the night," as Thomas Jefferson called it.
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The events of 2000 were, to use Thomas Jefferson's famous description of the controversy over slavery, a firebell in the night - a warning that bad things were happening and that, if not faced and responded to, would produce catastrophic results.
Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Like Jefferson, Swain hears a firebell in the night.
The blame game… the race card… the care card « BuzzMachine 2005
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The firebell whose rope hung almost to the floor was rung by whoever saw the fire first.
St. Vincent Firehall Trish Short Lewis 2005
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He also ran the firebell at 9:00 every night as curfew.
St. Vincent Firehall Trish Short Lewis 2005
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One night the firebell rang to herald the fact that the Rube Smith Restaurant was on fire.
St. Vincent Firehall Trish Short Lewis 2005
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The wagon had a firebell on it that was rung by a foot pedal.
St. Vincent Firehall Trish Short Lewis 2005
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