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...black institutions, from elementary schools to East Topeka High, have been closed up or torn down, and their students dispersed throughout the district. Behind the Gothic facade of Topeka High, the city's largest high school, a racially diverse blend of students (at 61% white, 20% black, 14% Latino and 5% other, it approximates the district's ethnic breakdown) intermingles on the football field, in the cafeteria and on the broad plaza outside the school. This year, it so happens, all four class presidents are Latino. Small victories like these have led black and white Topekans to declare the integration...
Some of Achilles' nerve comes in handy for anyone trying to make Homer's Iliad sing and swagger in a 2-hr. 40-min. movie. Director Wolfgang Petersen, writer David Benioff and their cohort just about pull it off. In this vigorous, stalwart epic, they blend martial breadth and emotional intimacy, honor and obsession, romance and machismo to show the glamour and folly of war. Old men plot; young men die; strong women weep...
Another key is adaptability. Ashwell's line is designed so that sheets, shower curtains and slipcovers can blend in with existing home furnishings. And Oldham's LaZBoy furniture and accessories--which he calls "personality amplifiers"--are multifunctional. A retro-looking sofa transforms into a bench, a settee or a chaise, and sectionals can be arranged in any configuration imaginable. No need to fluff these pillows...
Thomason said the biggest challenge of the novel was in fact, trying to blend in all the different themes. He described it as “a many-headed monster. It’s a thriller, it’s a mystery or its somewhere in between, it’s a book about books, it’s a book about friendship, love and obsession and about fathers and sons...
...Along with a group of ten teenage Americans, I was asked to show identification, amusingly enough because they thought I was over 18. Embarrassingly, it was a teen-only night. As I sashayed among the soapy suds to Brit-pop, I couldn’t help but enjoy the blend of childhood and adulthood...