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Details like these are half the fun of What Falls Away. Farrow knows how to orchestrate a scene, a sophisticated writing skill. She also makes each of the children's personalities distinct and, of course, sympathetic, something that professional novelists can have trouble with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: MIA FARROW TELLS HER SIDE | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Elsewhere he compares different styles of racism. The U.S., with its predominantly Northern European traditions, erects distinct color barriers even though its population has been paddling in a richly mixed gene pool for more than three centuries. By contrast, Brazil is what Cose calls a "pigmentocracy," where the national myth of racial harmony masks a system in which lighter skins enjoy higher status and rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: COOL TALK ON A HOT TOPIC | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Such propaganda tactics were used effectively to set Jews apart in the most distinct manner from those whom they had considered to be their compatriots--to describe them as foreign elements in their own land. While many Jews may in fact be white, identifying them all as such is simply inaccurate, as born out by the plurality of Jews of all racial stripes. Religions are not the spiritual equivalent of races and the two differ in all important respects. It therefore makes as little sense to label Jews as a "whites-only religion" as it would to label Christianity...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: Surveying Crown Heights | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

...mixed plate' description, as opposed to the melting pot, maintains that separate ethnic groups keep their distinct cultures, but blend together into a tasty whole," he said...

Author: By William P. Moynahan, | Title: Hawaiian Conference Held | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...himself must have an interesting tale to tell about the amalgamation of such an impressive display of early Soviet propaganda. Each gallery houses prints and posters--the cheap, bold media used alike by Moscow government bureaucrats, provincial factory managers, collective developers and tobacco manufacturing firms to push their (distinct) messages upon the population at large...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: GETTING FOGGY | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

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