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...sampling of tony restaurants finds that many are doing better than their lobbyists would have the public believe. "The 80% rule has had little effect on our business, and we expect no change at 50%," says Thomas Baldwin, the chief financial officer of Quantum Restaurant Group, which owns 46 establishments, including the Morton's of Chicago steak houses. "It's now in vogue for restaurateurs to state that the tax change will have an adverse affect. But we've seen a surge in revenues just since the election...
Those recognized in connection with the protest era are Louis Baldwin, Rev. J. Henry Duckery, William H. Lewis, Emery T. Morris, Rev. William H. Scott and Rev. P. Thomas Stanford...
...lure of movie biography is to show the contours in a life of significance. Working from a screenplay written in the late '60s by James Baldwin and Arnold Perl, Lee splays Malcolm's story across a 40-year panorama of Americana (the film cost $34 million, but it looks twice as expensive and expansive). In the mid-'20s, Malcolm Little's parents are threatened by the Ku , Klux Klan. In the '30s he finds both acceptance and isolation in white foster homes and white schools. In the '40s Malcolm (embodied with potent charm by Denzel Washington) is a rakish dude...
...sketches Malcolm's life colorfully, if by the numbers. But he falls victim to the danger of movie biography: he elevates Malcolm's importance until the vital historical context is obscured. Malcolm came of age in an era of great black oratory. Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Eldridge Cleaver, Maya Angelou had no power but in their minds and throats and pens. And what force, what rage, what music they found there...
Weaving together quotes from writers ranging from James Baldwin to Richard Wright and references to the work of Black leaders including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., West described ways in which Black society has so far dealt with rage...