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...some corners for wearing its conservatism on its tailored sleeve. But no film, especially an independent film, should hew to a company line of political rectitude. Besides, a Stillman movie delights because it shows its men-about-town to be just as estranged as any deli clerk or Harlem youth. And how eager they all are for love -- as eager as any downtown lesbians. Barcelona is just that kind of post-modern romance: a G.O.P. Fish...
...modern Disney cartoon feature is an adventure of the spirit -- a guided tour through eruptive emotions. The Little Mermaid plunged briskly into the growing pains of a creature that felt as isolated from the shimmering haut monde as any Afghan peasant or Harlem street kid. Beauty and the Beast took a stroll in the woods with a fellow who needed lessons in the civilizing power of love. The Aladdin carpet ride revealed a whole grownup world of pleasures and perils to a young thief who started out in search of only a quick spin with a pretty princess...
...Katherine Mims was what you might call a welfare mother in training. That was in 1985, when home was a two-bedroom Harlem apartment that she shared with her mother, four brothers, one cousin and a pregnant aunt who was 14. All of them were supported by welfare checks, a background that might have put Mims in line for early pregnancy, an education cut off in the ninth grade or so and a long stretch on public support. Instead, she is married today and looking forward to starting a family -- after she finishes her degree program at Manhattan's Hunter...
...established Ellison in the permanent firmament of American writers, a place he still occupied at his death last week from pancreatic cancer, six weeks after his 80th birthday. But Invisible Man was more than a gorgeously written piece of fiction. Because its phantasmagoric satire of mid- century life in Harlem and the American South proved prophetic, the book became a blueprint for inner-city discontent. Invisible Man taught two generations of readers, black and white, how to think about themselves...
This goal is possible with high expectations, she said, pointing to schools such as Harlem's Central Park East High School, which sends about 90 percent of its graduates to college. Kunin said that America must extend such successful programs to a broader scale...