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...harsh to call them the over-the-hill gang. But TV's newest batch of prime-time detectives are, let us say, not the sleuths you'd feel most comfortable hiring to follow an armed robber down a dark alley. Cosby, now 56 and with a No. 1-rated sitcom under his (expanding) belt, not only resurfaced in I Spy Returns on CBS but also played a police crime consultant in The Cosby Mysteries, the first of a planned series of NBC movies. Dick Van Dyke, now an avuncular 68, portrays a crime-solving physician in the CBS series Diagnosis...
...explain the abstruse in language that can be both meticulously exact and wondrously evocative. In a chapter on cancer, for instance, his description of how the cells operate contains this startling analogy: "In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society...
Problems facing the Black community, like gang violence and unemployment, stem from far more complex causes than racism, Steele said. "The temptation is to say. 'Clearly that's racism, clearly that's oppression," he said...
Consider a text by Joyce Carol Oates, her latest novel, called Foxfire, Confessions of a Girl Gang. Oates, a gifted writer with an instinct for the violent and gothic, has invented the story of teenage girls banded together as secret female warriors in the '50s in upstate New York. The narrator, called Maddy-Monkey, describes the '50s: "It was a time of violence against girls and women, but we didn't have the language to talk about it then." Her heroine, Legs Sadovsky, tells the gang, "It's all of them: men. It's a state of undeclared war, them...
Sometimes, Sharpton manages to find what are indeed racially motivated hate crimes, like the infamous 1991 Bensonhurst case, when a Black teenager was brutally beaten to death by a gang of white men. Just as often, though, Sharpton makes race an issue and inflames tensions without cause...