Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Dooling's brilliant new novel, Brain Storm, Judge Whittaker Stang, a Howard Cosell in robes, scolds an attorney who wants to try the killer of a "disabled person of color" for a hate crime rather than simple murder. The ambitious lawyer thinks that will make him look cuddly and electable in a run for the Senate. Throbbing with scorn, Stang tears into him: "Are we going to impanel a jury to inquire after just what kind of hate this degenerate had running around inside his head? And after we identify all the warped, deviant varietals of hatred...
...that Jennifer, now outfitted in a poodle-skirt-and-sweater set, is Mary Sue--Muffin to her doting dad. Weirdest of all, the whole town is in black-and-white. "We're supposed to be at home, David," Jennifer scolds her brother. "We're supposed to be in color...
...outline, Pleasantville sounds like the most derivative movie of all time: a bit of Back to the Future (teen time travel), a whit of The Wizard of Oz (the color of dreams), a plot from The Purple Rose of Cairo (with actor Jeff Daniels linking two stories of real and reel life), a lot from The Truman Show (except that here everyone in town believes in the grand fiction of a perfectly ordered society). But Ross, who helped create two other fantasies of displacement, Big and Dave, has more in mind: Follow your heart, not the rules...
...writer's craft, not cultural studies. But more than 50 percent of the Expos offerings do just that. We get courses about "American Identities in Everyday Life," "Bi-culturalism and American Identity" and, my favorite, "Popular Culture and Mass Media," a class which examines such watershed films as "The Color Purple" and "The Joy Luck Club." The syllabus boasts an interdisciplinary approach which draws on sociology, Afro-American studies and gender studies--all inarguably indispensable influences on the art of expository composition...
Last week, Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple and several other novels, kicked-off the series with a call for fathers and daughters to reconnect. She also read from her latest novel, By the Light of My Father's Eyes...