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...draining away since the collapse of cotton growing. (Black population shrank from 27% in 1920 to 16% in 1980.) But Faubus wanted to be seen standing up against outsiders. What bothered his state was not simply having to integrate schools but being told that it had to by the distant Federal Government...
...what I have heard and read from a distance, it seems that the University has yet to make the quantum leap to enlightenment (or, at least, to mutual understanding!). We believed this might happen over the course of the past three years, but it seems that horizon was more distant than we had thought...
...Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe). He comes to investigate a burglary at their house and stays to hit on her and harass him, after Michael sees through his bulletproof vest of politesse to the psychopath beneath. Liotta's chilly boyishness is hypnotic. Jonathan Kaplan's film is a little distant and a lot manipulative, as it reminds some of us paranoiacs that you don't have to be Rodney King to get more police attention than you really want or need...
There are some other distant prospects. Poland, a country rich in dirty coal, sent a team to Syracuse in February to explore a deal with Otisca. They took a lot of notes and seemed interested, says Smith, but have yet to follow up. A representative of Pakistan has made inquiries. Markets in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have a lot of potential but not much prospect of immediate payoff. For Smith, who hasn't had a paycheck in two years, that's important...
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is not even 33 years old, but it seems a relic of some distant age, when vast, impractical artistic hubris could persuade and triumph. Wright was a fabulous caricature of the genius artiste, difficult and grand, and so the Guggenheim was a caricature of 20th century genius architecture -- bizarre, ahistorical, antiurban. These days, there are still plenty of arrogant, solipsistic architects around, but self-confidence -- and talent -- on the scale of Wright's no longer exists...