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With that choice in mind, the McCain camp was hell-bent on portraying Bush as the captive of his party's right wing--a divider, not a uniter. By the time Michigan voters were going to the polls last Tuesday, McCain had taken Bush's visit to Fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina and turned it into a symbol of the entire race. Bush, whose brother Jeb converted to Roman Catholicism, was forced to stand up and deny that he was an anti-Catholic bigot...
...Carter. As a street urchin growing up in racist New Jersey, he defends a friend against a white pedophile and is unjustly sent to a correction home by a sinister police officer, Depalowski (Dan Hedaya). Escaping from the home, he makes it good as an army officer until Depalowski, hell-bent on persecuting Carter, sends him back to prison. Upon release, he becomes a famous boxer but is framed by Depalowski again, this time for killing three white people in a bar. He proceeds to spend the next 19 years in prison. So this reviewer sits back and waits...
...accuses the Advocate of a kind of collective artistic pretension. It seems that FM's hell-bent desire to be sensational at the expense of objectivity has blinded it to the fact that the faults we find in others are often...
...home in Crystal City, Mo., but Ernestine Schlant has vanished. She is trapped somewhere behind the electronic thicket--a mad bristling of boom mikes and long lenses, tape recorders and power packs, TV cameras shouldered by guys who look like defensive linemen gone to seed, all of them barreling hell-bent for Bradley...
...acceptable political solution for Kosovo. Now it looks out of the question. The down-the-middle construct of Rambouillet that retained Serbian sovereignty over the province but gave self-rule to the ethnic Albanians for three years seems dead. No one believes the Kosovars can live with the Serbs hell-bent on eliminating them--and no one trusts some of the Kosovars not to seek bloodthirsty revenge. The anguished children streaming out of Kosovo were a reminder that already this Serb attack has inculcated a new generation with visceral ethnic hate...