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...from his father to open his eponymous company, Ratti has been printing everything from silk pocket squares to couture fabrics for a long roster of creative talent. The postwar years were a new era for Italian textiles?a renaissance of color and patterns after so much gray and black???and Ratti said his aim was to build a company that was both commercial and creative. Designing and printing ties at first, Ratti added scarves, pocket squares and ascot ties, quickly developing a reputation for and love of paisleys?one of the most complicated patterns to produce. With the completion...
What a great question: is Barack Obama black??enough? I also want to know, Are the rest of the candidates white enough? Is Hillary woman enough...
Orlando Patterson's "The New Black??Nativism" [Feb. 19] brought to mind the support that many African Americans gave O.J. Simpson while he was on trial for the murder of his wife. If it's true that black Americans seem less likely to support Barack Obama as a presidential candidate because he is "the son of an immigrant ... brought up by middle-class whites," why was there such overwhelming support for O.J., who does not come close to representing the average African American (or the average white American for that matter...
...into a cancerous lung, Jeb courts death instead of his bride. In a Louisiana mansion as corroded as he is, Jeb introduces Myrtle to his half-brother Chicken (Robert Hooks). From the newlyweds' point of view, Chicken has several drawbacks: he is surly, he is vengeful and he is black???"a mistake" claims Jeb, "of my father's." Like two halves of the same soul, the siblings are rivals for the property and the woman, while outside a summer flood seems to threaten all creation. At last Chicken exhumes the ultimate family skeleton, and Jeb, the levee and the film...
...they have." Without exactly meaning to, white Middle America rests upon the unspoken threat of sheer presence and the six-gun deterrent, Gary Cooper's fingers twitching two inches from his holster. No wonder the Middle Americans recoil when the twitching fingers are black???as at Cornell, or at Black Panther headquarters...