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Aside from the campaign for President, the Oscar derby is America's most contentious horse race. Last week, when the year's nominations were announced, much of the noise was about one of the losers: Hoop Dreams, the story of two high school basketball stars from Chicago's ghetto. This potent family epic touched critics and audiences. Many felt it might get a Best Picture nomination, unheard of for a documentary...
...nice sentiment, but I don't think that a child growing up in a poor, crime-ridden ghetto would buy it. Neither would Bosnians, Rwandans or the homeless people that line the streets of Cambridge. Before we built monuments to ourselves in the sky, we must halt the economic decay of our cities, alleviate human suffering and help our neighbors acquire the basic necessities of life. The pro-Freedom slogan reads: "The Space Station: It's About Life on Earth." Maybe, but dealing with poverty, crime, famine and war are about "life on earth," too. Once we've made some...
There are several reasons why the piece became combustible. For one, the New Yorker under editor Tina Brown has developed a knack for getting itself talked about, and this piece was placed up front in the issue, not back in the critical ghetto. For another, the article was well timed. Croce used it to deplore what she considers the politicization of National Endowment for the Arts grants and the effects of political correctness on the arts in general. To Croce, a conservative, a work of art should be judged by its realization of truth and beauty, not its adaptability...
...with melted cheese spread, nachos topped with everything, burritos buried in sour cream and guacamole! Not to mention flavors unheard of a generation ago -- honey mustard (what deranged home-ec dropout thought that one up?), ranch, jalapeno. Of course, there isn't much alternative if you live in a ghetto where the nearest supermarket is likely to be a bus ride away and the only accessible food source is Store...
...first of these releases, and it covers the same ground that multiplatinum rappers like Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr. Dre explored years after it was recorded. Densely rhythmic and riddled with violent imagery, obscenities and the sound of gunshots, the Black Album is a bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men -- a Clockwork Orange-style landscape ruled by drug dealers and petty hoods. Two of its songs, Le Grind and Dead on It, are explicit, sometimes monotonous odes not to sexual pleasure but to sexual conquest. On Bob George, a well-armed drug...