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...Blind Justice," from Steven Bochco, about a blind cop. (Surprisingly, the trailer actually looked better than it's parodically high-concept idea and title - but then, that's not that high...
Note to Rose: whenever you're in doubt of your abilities, just take out a copy of Goddess. Nowhere else is her loopy sadness and extraterrestrial beauty put to better effect. In Law's underrated art-house flick, Byrne plays a damaged blind girl who lures a young Tokyo man across the Outback; her hair squirrel red, the color of the DS-model Citro?n he has journeyed to Australia to buy. Even before the cameras rolled, Byrne surprised her director by coming into rehearsals "not learning to be blind, but already like a blind person," Law recalls. With downcast eyes...
Denial was of little use because the pictures told the story in a universal language of domination. And the perps in the pictures were somehow familiar, the giddy weekend warriors under the command of the traveling window-blind salesman, the boy next door--and the girl. This time women can't privately tell one another that if only we were in charge, we might all have a chance of getting along, because there she is, Private England, gloating, holding the leash. And the female general in command was telling reporters last summer that conditions were so much nicer...
After the Plessy ruling, segregation laws spread like pestilence to include street cars, buses, taxicabs, schools, water fountains, bathrooms, juries, movie theaters, parks, facilities for the blind, libraries, lunch counters, hotels, waiting rooms, visiting days at the zoo, swimming pools, beaches and so on ad infinitum. They were so complete and cruel that, in the eyes of the law, African-Americans were essentially sub-human. During World War II, Nazi prisoners of war in the United States were permitted to eat in diners and ride in train cars in which uniformed black GI’s could not. Blood supplies...
...this small city's unusual urban-suburban busing program, which was imposed by court order in 1978. Educators say the program has helped make Delaware's schools among the nation's most integrated. Smith says it has driven families out of public education and broken the color-blind promise of Brown. "Having grown up here, I just thought it was wrong to break up the local schools and destroy what had been focal points of communities for somebody else's ideal," says the investment banker and father of four...