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...checked, minority trumps white, and one minority will trump another, depending on the issue for which data are being collected. Sure, the formula is an embrace of the old one-drop rule (one drop of black blood makes you black), but this retrograde remedy is an appropriate answer to backward thinking, and what could be more backward than racism...
...Mitchell, more Kimmi, more Maralyn, and a whole lot more Kel than we needed (he's strong in his mind and his body, by the way). None of which was much use to the show's water-cooler punditocracy. Right now, viewers are looking forward at the survivors, not backward at the losers. There was some illumination of Rodger and Elisabeth - it seems neither is the guileless character actor we suppose them to be - and Jerri got her singing audition for her agent to flog back in L.A. And the show opened with a funny bit about Colby snoring away...
...Working backward through letters, photos and visits to relatives, Gallagher summons up a universe when a band of utopic Russian emigres arrives in a New York City that no longer exists. Penniless, working for a pittance, they are rich beyond their wildest dreams. She never says how much she actually loves this extended family, except by her affectionate yet dispassionate descriptions of them. There are Bella and Izzy as young communists in love, her father saving her mother from drowning, choosing her over her sister--a revelation to their daughter, who had been worried that her parents weren't romantic...
...about these things do not much remember the (at the time) breathtaking little Crash of 1987. But now they feel the earth shaking beneath their feet a bit. They entertain premonitions that the earth will open, and in some ghastly, bracing time reversal, will suck the gaudy Clinton era backward into a grainy trauma of black and white. Unthinkable reversions become possible - mass unemployment, who knows? We have already seen California's power grids shuddering. Will grass sprout through the silicon chips, and all that brilliant information revert to sand, and Gates to Ozymandias? Maybe not, but there...
...curse. Bravely he has struggled to keep some forward momentum in the Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter, and an IRA statement that it was talking again with the international body in charge of putting paramilitary weapons beyond use, could...