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...might not be controversial for high school seniors to consider whether Tennessee Williams' sexuality fueled the outsider lyricism of A Streetcar Named Desire. But telling six-year-olds, however gently, that some other six- year-olds have two mommies is still a red flag in many households with just one. Some parents involved in the New York City controversy fear that exposure to the subject might predispose young children toward homosexuality. Others simply don't want to teach their kids that gay couples are acceptable. "We're asked to park our values about life-style at the door," complains Joanne...
ONCE AGAIN THOUSANDS OF AMERIcan soldiers are donning flak jackets and moving into harm's way on a far-off continent. The soldiers of Operation Restore Hope will be spending Christmas in Somalia, and some may die there. Under the United Nations' aegis but their own flag, they will be conducting an experiment in world order: armed peacemaking, rather than peacekeeping. Anarchy rules in Somalia, and the U.N. has resolved specifically to intervene in a nation's domestic affairs to rescue a civilian population that is dying at the rate of a thousand a day, not just from bullets...
...film's chances of returning a profit on its $34 million budget). Some whites have been turned off by the racist rhetoric with which Malcolm is often identified; others fear that violence might be provoked by scenes like the opening montage, in which an image of a burning American flag alternates with clips from the Rodney King videotape while a recording of one of Malcolm's most militant speeches plays in the background. "It's not going to be interpreted intellectually," frets Constance Cumbey, a white attorney who practices in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. "It's going...
...movie's first minutes promise the fire this time. A Patton-size U.S. flag fills the screen and is set ablaze. Video clips of Los Angeles cops pummeling a helpless Rodney King are underlaid with the words of Malcolm X fulminating against the white devil. Flames of black rage gnaw at the fabric of the flag until it is burned into a huge X. America, the image says, created Malcolm X in a centuries-old crucible of race hatred. And the legacy of Malcolm, murdered in 1965, helped define the battered field of today's Stars and Stripes...
...White directors wouldn't have thought of putting the Rodney King footage in the movie, or of the American flag burning to the X, or even of using Nelson Mandela. Richard Attenborough did a movie called Cry Freedom that was supposed to be about Stephen Biko. But that movie is more about Donald Woods and his family trying to get out of South Africa. So if Attenborough had done this film, the main character would have been a sympathetic white reporter and nothing about Malcolm...