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...West is concerned with linguistic and rhetorical practices which create worldwide conceptions of identity. He challenges his reader to refuse blind acceptance of racial categories. Before classifying individuals or groups of individuals as "Black" or "White" or "Hispanic," we should "go back to Marx and Weber and Durkheim and Du Bois and Simone de Beauvoir and other historical sociologists who are concerned about providing an account of...rhetorical enactments." In other words, we must question the origins of certain racial and racist constructions before we condemn/define/evaluate people in accordance with them. West is interested in the history of the idea...
...With the earthquake that hit Hollywood ... ((God)) has shown where his sympathies lie." -- FRENCH FILM MOGUL DANIEL TOSCAN DU PLANTIER, REFERRING OBLIQUELY TO THE TRADE BATTLES BETWEEN THE U.S. AND FRANCE OVER AMERICAN MOVIES
Whenever the change began, American show business is today so pervasively Vegasy that we hardly notice anymore. The arty, sexy French-Canadian circus Cirque du Soleil had its breakthrough run in Manhattan before decamping this year to Las Vegas, and neither venue seemed unnatural. Big rock-'n'-roll concerts nowadays are often as much about wowie-kazowie production values -- giant video walls, neon, fireworks, suggestively costumed young men and women, clouds of pastel-colored smoke -- as music. Michael Jackson's highly stylized shtick -- the cosmetics, the wardrobe, the not-quite-dirty bumps and grinds, the Liberace-like gender-preference coyness...
...There was a little bit of a delay," said Holworthy resident Ying Du '97, luggage in hand, after flying in from Cleveland yesterday...
...smirking Du, referring to the traffic at the airport, added, "[The airport is] as it always...