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...Black City pictures dance lightly around searing social dilemmas. Bill Duke's A Rage in Harlem is an old-fashioned gangster movie, content to showcase Robin Givens' pert charms. And Michael Schultz's Livin' Large!, a kind of Homeboy Alone, hatches broad but pointed comedy from the perspective of a black street reporter (Terrence (("T.C.")) Carson) who lands a job with an all-white news team. But most of the films sketch, in furious strokes, a portrait of the ghetto and of its most feared and hopeless denizen, the black male...
...most distinguished black visual artist America has so far produced: the only one, perhaps, who rivaled in his own time and field the achievements of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell, Earl Hines and Duke Ellington in theirs. His retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem is an exhilarating show marred by a sloppy catalog. This will not matter too much to the audience the exhibition will acquire as it moves around the museums of America, ending in 1993 in Washington. The art, as always, is what counts...
Anonymity would be death to the heavenly creatures on parade in PARIS IS BURNING, Jennie Livingston's thrilling documentary. They are the gentlemen of the Harlem drag balls. They wear frocks to die for; they vogue on the floor like Madonna dancers. A few have passed beyond show biz. A frail baby-voiced blond named Venus Xtravaganza says, "I wanna be a rich, pampered white woman," as she curls up in a tacky bedroom furnished only by her dreams...
Doctors at Harlem Hospital studied 70 such toddlers just under age 2 and found that almost all were slow in learning to talk and that more than half had impaired motor and social skills. An inability to distinguish between mothers and strangers is another hallmark of crack-exposed youngsters...
...mood has influenced the career choices of college students and recent graduates. Many are spurning high-powered corporate careers to train for teaching, nursing and other community-service jobs. Joe Holland turned down generous offers after graduating from Harvard Law School a few years ago to move to Harlem to help build up the community. Now the owner of a restaurant and a travel agency, Holland has also founded a shelter for the homeless. "I know that coming to Harlem shut the door to Wall Street," says he. "But I can look at a healthy man, a full-time travel...