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...thanks to the Baghdad-Moscow shuttle, Gorbachev is getting the sort of headlines he's used to, as a bold wheeler-dealer rather than as a brutal head cracker...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers -- those legendary names are as synonymous with sophistication as a jet-black tuxedo, the snow-white swirl of an evening gown, a Ritz cracker . . . A Ritz cracker? According to Astaire's widow, a subsidiary of Nabisco Brands hoped to create just such a connection when it released a million packages of its familiar Ritz snack crackers decorated with dancers in formal dress. Though the faces seem airbrushed, Mrs. Astaire and the very much living Ginger Rogers see an uncanny resemblance to a photo of the famed Hollywood hoofers from the 1935 hit film...
Acting as his own lawyer, WAR leader Metzger is casting himself as a beleaguered populist, but not an instigator of violence. "I'm a white racial separatist," Tom Metzger says, "and I can sit down with any person, white, black or Oriental, and talk about it." Metzger's easygoing cracker-barrel manner in Portland is belied by the angry messages he tapes for WAR telephone lines. There he calls nonwhites "mud people" and "assorted scum"; attorney Dees is "Morris the pervert"; trial judge Ancer L. Haggerty, who is black, is an "Uncle Tom"; and the trial, says Metzger...
...down-market Columbo, ill at ease in the new Miami of drug millions and Hispanic flash. Junior, who has stolen Hoke's gun, badge and false teeth, is just the sort of criminal throwback Hoke understands. But Junior's girl Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a mystery. A sweet cracker from upstate, this Princess Not-So-Bright is grateful to Junior for the minutest graces: he eats her cooking and doesn't beat her. She and the con are lost souls sharing a postcard vision of Nirvana: a cloudless beach, a dog leaping for a Frisbee, a cruise ship navigating...
...Confederate flag was first and foremost the symbol of the country which sought to keep Blacks enslaved. Within decades of Emancipation, the Stars and Bars was deliberately adopted as a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan. To this day, people associate this flag with the Klan and the "cracker"--the bigoted poor white. Although one can find the Stars and Bars in such mundane places as state flags, school mascots and even Scout uniforms, it is also a warning to Blacks...