Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Do the Right Thing, which began as a live-action Sesame Street and then flipped out into a race riot, Jungle Fever is really two movies in one: the first hour an essay on various volatile issues, the second a dramatization of how these issues inform and ruin ordinary lives. Lee tries hard to spread the intensity, and the ignorance, judiciously. He lets a geek chorus of Italian- American guys in Bensonhurst blame black men for everything from Central Park rapes to the mongrelization of jockdom. "They took our sports," one fellow grouses, "baseball, football, basketball, boxing. What...
...ESSAY: Does Evil Exist...
...ESSAY Michael Kinsley fulminates in the doctor's waiting room...
...ESSAY Charles Krauthammer urges us to hail Columbus...
...ESSAY Barbara Ehrenreich worries about shady scientists...