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George Bush is the Brer Rabbit of American politics - the sly trickster who outwits his opponents in part by pretending to be slow-witted...
...Remember, though, that the fox learned never to count Brer Rabbit...
...President's team. I considered it to be possible that he was delivering a message from the central administration that it was open to resolving Peter's case if we chose to follow this procedure. The point is as simple as the Uncle Remus story about Brer Rabbit and the briar patch. Each thorn along the procedural way a prick to spark consciousness in a new Harvard audience, each a stopping point along our way toward truth and justice and a stage to tell our story...
...issue of racial harmony is the main issue in town, even (or especially) among those who claim it is a non-issue. For decades the city has managed to generate hopeful visions of bodies reaching out to one another across racial lines, from the stories of Brer Rabbit to the 1989 movie Driving Miss Daisy. The Commission on Inter-racial Cooperation was set up here in the 1920s--but at almost exactly the same time, the Ku Klux Klan was reorganized at nearby Stone Mountain...
...great shape these days, radiates the strain of a desperate coquette. Anderson, with all the charisma of the guys you knew back in shop class, is an ideal stud-schlemiel. But this is Lithgow's spotlight. His shambling gait and open shirt give him the look of Disney's Brer Bear. But Mills is a slyer oaf, muttering obscenities and worn wisdom, capable of evil . and love; Lithgow's dilapidated face tells you both are curses. He knows that noir is a chase with death at the end, and he makes it a hell of a ride...