Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been the case. Although today many Americans believe that racism is no longer a problem, that it was "abolished by the movement," it continues to run rampant across the face of America. From jewelers in Washington, D.C. who refuse to admit Black teenagers to their stores because they associate color with crime, to white college students who don sheets to scare off their Black peers, to a white community that tolerates the murder of a Black man because he was "caught" in their neighborhood, we see that bigotry flourishes. If we look to our past, to King's legacy...
Simple justice. Is not turning an elegant film noir like The Maltese Falcon into a lurid color riot a travesty? Like putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa...
...individual choose. Anyone can rent the black-and-white Casablanca. And even when the philistines insist on putting a tainted Casablanca on TV, all you have to do to restore artistic integrity is turn off the color on your set. Why the panic...
...critics are panicked that you won't turn off the color. They propose to do it for you. "It's a decision the public shouldn't be forced to make," says Critic Gene Siskel. The Minister of Culture could hardly have said it better, though some of the subtlety might be lost in translation from the Russian...
Once his diverse audiences caught up with him, Leonard, 61, faced the inevitable problem of an encore. Everyone can relax. Bandits should fill the land with the sound of pages turning. It offers all the suspense, tough talk and local color that anyone could expect, plus a few surprises. Veteran fans may experience the uneasy feeling, toward the end of the book, that Leonard's characteristic hard-boiled fiction is turning a trifle runny inside, that one of the most unsparing chroniclers of U.S. lowlife shows signs of developing a social conscience. They may be right but, like everyone else...