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...seem almost churlish to wonder what sort of jumpy society will result from so many people becoming so sensitized to potential violence. De Becker claims that a calmly employed intuition, bolstered by knowledge, is actually "the exact opposite of living in fear." He describes a woman who was unjustifiably unnerved when he joined her in an elevator. "A man who gets into the elevator on another floor," he writes, "a man who gives her no undue attention, who presses the button for a floor other than the one she has selected...who stands a substantial distance from...
SOURCES: Burt Folsom, Mackinac Center for Public Policy; Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Japan Economic Institute
...much for his story-telling vigor as for his love of racial stereotypes. He bedecks Armstrong in a leopard-skin tunic, harem pants and body glitter; he urges his black actors to grimace grotesquely and gives them fearful patois to spout ("I run until I's black in de face," says a man fleeing a Latin American revolt in the 1931 Be Like Me). He was not alone in caricaturing African Americans. Crosby, whose crooner inflections owed much to black musicians, wears blackface in the 1932 Dream House--as Jolson did in The Jazz Singer...
...films have the audacity of the talkies' youth: you'll hear "hell" and "damn" in the 1929 Makers of Melody, see Calloway make love to a married woman, and get away with it, in Hi-De-Ho (1933). The films also showcase future stars, like Rogers, perky and alluring from the start, and Cary Grant, who made his movie debut in Chang's Singapore Sue. Some stars Hollywood couldn't figure out. Merman, setting a torch to After You're Gone in Be Like Me, is tough, sexy, charismatic--a singing Stanwyck. But film musical heroines were soft creatures...
...Service is sponsoring a three-year $5 million bicycle team when your check is still in the mail. Well, cyclists exemplify swiftness, and the Postals, managed by Montgomery Sports of San Francisco, have won more than two dozen races. This month the team is competing in the prestigious Tour de France. "We don't expect to win this race," says spokeswoman Margot Myers, "but we'd love to get all our cyclists across the finish line on the Champs Elysees." Is that a priority delivery...