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Burton's gift is to make movies about beguiling outsiders -- the dead couple reclaiming their home in Beetlejuice, the deformed snow sculptor Edward Scissorhands, even the childlike Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens plays the Penguin's father here). Burton inverts pictures and fictions, and makes it seem as if he has just turned them right side up. In Batman Returns, everything is familiarly topsy-turvy. Black is good -- Batman, of course -- and white or bright is bad. Max, the rapacious industrialist, has a Stokowskian white mane that helps Gothamites think of him as Santa Claus, though Selina derisively calls...
...other positions were created through consolidation to assist the dean. "Joe Kalt [Professor of Political Economy] will be responsible for research centers..[and Baker Professor of Public Management Herman B.] Leonard will be responsible for the curriculum," he says...
Bradbury, 71, an established master of fantasy and sci-fi, calls Green Shaddows, White Whale a novel. In fact it is a disguised memoir of the period he spent in Ireland adapting Herman Melville's work for the roistering film director. The narrator is Bradbury himself, an intimidated writer as green as Eire, summoned to meet the Great Man at his country estate...
...terrorism is a form of oppression that black people intimately understand, because we are the victims of it," says Steven Hawkins, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. "It is something that few whites understand, because they are typically not affected by it." Herman Collins, an unemployed 26-year-old black in Ohio, says more simply, "I don't want to see any white people today. Every time I see a white person now I will think, 'You think you can get away with anything.' I know you can't blame all white people...
...there are a couple of road pictures: Jed Weintrob describes his romp across America as a "fictionary" (combination of fiction and documentary with occasional snippets of Jerry Falwell and Barry Manilow); and Lindsay Herman (whose thesis is actually a video, not a film--the difference being a few hundred dollars more for every hour of film footage but lower picture quality) documents a more serious trek across Japan...