Word: caste
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Orey dramatizes rather than sermonizes. Assuming the Risk, a first-rate exercise of narrative journalism, assembles an eccentric cast of characters. Don Barrett, for example, was a garden-variety white racist as a student at the University of Mississippi ("I do feel that the Negro is inherently unequal," he told a New York Times interviewer in 1963, around the time James Meredith was integrating Ole Miss). In the fullness of time, he became a born-again Christian and crusading lawyer who took up the cause of Nathan Horton, a black carpenter and contractor who smoked two packs of Pall Malls...
...Sunday afternoon when I met the young trio of actors who fill out the second generation in the cast of American Beauty. Certainly, I could have picked the three, um, American beauties out of a lineup--all striking examples of uncommon poise. Petite and chatty, Mena Suvari (teenage lust object Angela Hayes in the film) appeared with a surprisingly modest brunette dye job which only partially belied the model-quality good looks that garnered her roles in both "American" movies this summer, both this one and American Pie. With unshaven, not-quite-ratty stubble that gave him the look...
...supposed to start everything off?), forgot to make Darth Maul important, and tried too hard to make it a movie that could appeal to kiddies and adults alike (the best crossover hits, we've come to learn, are accidents). But most egregious was his wasting of an all-star cast--Ewan, Liam and Natalie tried to act their way out of Lucas' steel box, but they never had a chance. Star Wars, sadly enough, is no longer the hallmark of spontaneous creativity...
...With these returning stars, as well as a superb freshman cast led by forward Beth Totman and midfielder Bryce Weed--who each have six points--the Crimson look to be in good shape against...
...cast. Neither mainstream Republicans nor Democrats now advocate cutting Russia off from IMF aid, although both are now calling for greater controls. But at this point IMF aid to Russia isn?t even passing through Russian hands ?- it?s simply being transferred from one IMF account to another, because the international body is giving Russia only enough to service its debt to the IMF in order to prevent a default that could destabilize global financial markets...