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...just say the movie hardly wanders from this format. The predictability of the plot isn’t the film’s only shortcoming. In one scene, the film more aggressively addresses the audience: at a debate in Oklahoma City, the reactions of the observers divide along color lines, in a way that should provide a funhouse mirror reflection of the movie-watching audience. If the film were shot more bravely, it would make us question our own situation piercingly, ontologically. It doesn’t; there are too many visual cues that tell us, “This...
...Caught Between Color Lines In "The Identity Card," Shelby Steele offered an insightful, thought-provoking examination of race in politics [Dec. 10]. I have a couple of questions, though. What exactly are black values vs. white values? What white shame does he believe binds my actions? He stated that "racist societies make race into a hard fate," yet he perpetuated racist beliefs in his article. Each individual is a cornucopia of various physical and behavioral traits. No single trait, most certainly not the pigment in one's skin, remotely defines any of us. If we want to end racism...
...reduce the remarkable achievements of Winfrey and Obama - two of our country's most compelling citizens - to their ability to make whites "think well of themselves"? Millions of black and white Americans deeply admire Oprah Winfrey and Senator Obama for their character, energy and ideas, not because of skin color or guilt. Every step Americans take toward common ground will bring all those who sell hopelessness a step closer to a richly deserved obscurity. Margaret E. Young, WEATHERFORD, TEXAS...
...been known for two things: paper mills and the rock star Kurt Cobain, who was born there in 1967. Both are memories now, and in recent years the area had fallen on the hard times familiar to blue-collar communities across the U.S. But Grays Harbor is showing new color, thanks in part to the Seattle biofuel company Imperium Renewables, which just opened the nation's largest biodiesel plant there. The four-month-old refinery positively gleams (and smells vaguely like lawn clippings because of the vegetable oil used to make the biodiesel). As he scales a 500,000-gallon...
...Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman. Fragments of his paintings—stiff canvases with strips of red, green, and blue—sit in brown boxes in the Straus Center, crucial keys to Newman’s creative past. Newman made a name for himself with bold blocks of color and vertical lines, which he termed zips. His paitnings often had punning and provocative titles, like the series “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?” When he died in 1970, his widow Annalee Newman carefully stored the contents of his studio...