Word: anger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hangin' with the Homeboys, the engaging new black-Hispanic comedy in which this scene appears, isn't the only place you can catch some provocative episodes of ghetto theater. The pageant of inner-city anger and anguish is playing at a theater near you. Suddenly, it seems, dozens of films by black directors are in circulation, from artistic achievements like Charles Burnett's family drama To Sleep with Anger (now on video) to breakthrough hits like Mario Van Peebles' dope opera New Jack City, the year's fourth highest grossing picture. Some of the black films pack promise, others just...
Unfortunately, she found, such simple answers weren't always enough, and the anger she encountered left quite an impression. After fellow Leverett residents hissed at her making an anti-war announcement in the dining hall one evening, Shehabuddin was so hurt she didn't return for weeks...
...happen that these old Truman-Kennedy-Johnson-Carter warriors, who rose out of anger and even hunger, crossed over into the sated land of Republicans? Victims of their own remarkable success, maybe. "Must be $50 billion on the hoof here," muttered a Kennedy veteran. Mrs. Harriman, one of the wealthiest Americans, is a kind of housemother to the Democratic Party. Megamillion lawyers like Lloyd Cutler, once counsel to President Carter, were a dime or so a dozen. "It's hard to get fire in the belly over health insurance when it's stuffed with pate," quipped the Kennedy...
Such efforts have vastly expanded job opportunities for blacks. But they have also touched off complaints from many whites that blacks are benefiting from reverse discrimination. Much of the anger is aimed at so-called race norming, in which scores on employment-aptitud e tests are ranked on different racial curves. Whites usually score higher on such examinations than blacks and Hispanics. To be ranked in the top 99% of applicants on one widely used test, for example, a white applicant must score 405 out of a possible 500 points. To get the same ranking, a black would have...
Complaining has its uses, but Bush's anger is better directed at the U.N. than at a goblin only the President perceives. If nothing works, if in the end the U.S. must stand alone, then so be it. No matter how unfair, unilateralism is sometimes a superpower...