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...number of AIDS cases in the city has exploded, while the number of welfare recipients has also steadily increased. The war on drugs has turned out to be little more than a skirmish awarding drug dealers the decided victory. In a city where the policemen must use pistols to fend against semi-automatic machine guns, it's small wonder that crime has steadily risen. In fact, New York currently leads the nation in number of policeman shot this year...
Born on a benevolent plantation, she is raised alongside the master's legitimate daughter. But after the Civil War, she must leave and fend for herself. Light-skinned enough to pass for white, she is caught between two worlds. A white man proposes marriage, then rapes her when she reveals her parentage; a black woman, responding to her plea for food, throws a plateful on the ground: "Eat that, white bitch!" She has a child by a black laborer (Dennis Haysbert) who walks out on her. She moves in with a pair of religious-fanatic spinsters who try to take...
...several crowd scenes, some of which bear a striking resemblence to a drill team performance. There are some nice touches--the death of the cow is cute and the knife-wielding Little Red Riding Hood is funny--but too often the actors seem to have been left to fend for themselves...
...trees are already gone and those left standing can't fend off the saws. Others must act in their stead...
That strategy makes Palestinian negotiators anxious. They must show tangible results quickly to fend off fundamentalist opponents, yet must satisfy multiple constituencies -- factions in the territories and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinians in camps and abroad -- before they can make any concessions. Publicly, their negotiators professed disdain for Rabin's speech, exaggerating its tough elements and ignoring its invitations for cooperation...