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...Daisy often feel they are parenting Jasmine, tugging her into line with a few "Earth to Moms," while Tyler and his at-loose-ends friends resent their grandparents because they've swallowed up the wealth of several future generations and spent it on a Winnebago. The teens' opportunities are grim because their little Northwestern town is dying from the loss of the nuclear industry, and they grow depressed because they could all die from the toxic waste left behind. The only light of hope for Tyler reflects from the glass skyscrapers of the huge Bechtol corporation in Seattle, where...
There's nothing new about that. For every successful African American, self- help and personal responsibility have always been a part of the equation. What is new is that if people like Keri manage to make it out of their grim neighborhoods, they will do so only by clearing hurdles that many black students of my generation never faced...
...Magritte reflects on sexual violence, alienation or loneliness: the couple trying to kiss through layers of cloth in The Lovers (1928), or The Titanic Days (1928), his image of attempted rape, in which the bodies of the terrified woman and the attacking man are fused together as in a grim photographic overlap. Often his color is extremely beautiful, though the viewer, intent on the visual conundrums, may not at first notice how powerful and tender it can be. But as his friend Louis Scutenaire wrote, "Magritte is a great painter. Magritte is not a painter." He had no interest...
...have an observant intelligence: they can see how lunatic their enterprise is, how silly they must look pursuing it and how refreshing it is sometimes just to drift away into fantasy. You might call them the gang that couldn't think straight. You might also reflect, in these grim, get-to-the-point times, that this is their strength, and the strength of this endearing movie. God, they say, is in the details. But fun, and the source of our best inspirations, is in the details that at first look irrelevant...
...fire-blackened walls of Tbilisi's Government House are a grim reminder of the street battle last December that toppled Gamsakhurdia, Georgia's first popularly elected President. The fervently patriotic Georgians had been quick to follow the lead of the Baltic republics in breaking away from Moscow early in 1990, but the majority admit they were duped by the charismatic nationalist, whose dictatorial policies turned democratic forces against him. * Gamsakhurdia instituted no economic reforms and left the state bureaucracy in a shambles. His worst legacy, though, was to set his compatriots on a collision course with ethnic minorities who felt...