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...capture the fast-paced glamour of high-stakes gambling that made “21” an entertaining (albeit superficial) movie. “Deal” does accomplish one feat, however: it presents an oddly dull view of one of the most entertaining card games in existence??poker. In “Deal,” Cates revisits the world of gambling that was the subject of his 2000 film “$pent,” which portrayed the broken world of a gambler. That film’s narrative fell apart by trying...
...years ago...As a result, black politics is paralyzed.” The cultural and artistic potential of black America is equally paralyzed by an outmoded and self-harming cultural isolationism. But the source of that isolationism—and who’s to blame for its continued existence??are not as important as simply acknowledging that it exists and working toward ending it. —Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...actually hadn’t heard of it, I had seen it. Its headquarters stand across from a new South African-run luxury hotel. In 2004, when I was last in Tanzania, the Commission’s smudgy grey facade—unclean after a three-decades-long unkempt existence??was apparently deemed to be an unbecoming look given what the agency nominally was.The grime accentuated the building’s weirdly Gotham feel—it is divided into two five-story wings which fan from a taller, and, might I add, completely useless center. Nowadays, everyone...
Lottman says he jumped at the chance. It would give him a break from what he calls a “humdrum existence?? at the Daily News, and more importantly, it would give him a chance to tell the stories of people that his own paper eschewed...
...Tucker Max himself, the man who stands up and acts where the rest of us sit and dream or masturbate. In the face of everything around him—social norms, ugly girls, stupid people, law firms, hotel employees, self-righteous d-bags, the very limits of human existence??Max has striven to break through boundaries and has sought to stake a claim for himself as a human being you may try to go over but never around. Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue brings us the famous Athenian claim that “the strong do what they...