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...only get half the joke. Printed legends like I'D RATHER BE SKIING refer not to snowy slopes but to white mounds of a certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman calls "absurd humor." He sees it as a deliberate mockery of the preppie look, of "the powers that be. Sheepskin contradicts the hip hop aesthetic because it's kind of organic, kind of hippie. But it's status-oriented because it's expensive...
Death row is about the same size in Alabama, where 55 men await the chair in Holman. Mitchell Rutledge, 23 years old, I.Q. 84, is among them. "You're just sitting there waiting for somebody to come kill you," says Rutledge of his purgatory, "just like a dog out there in the dog pound." But he does not claim innocence. No: he did kill a man two days before Christmas 1980. Rutledge was doped up and drunk with two friends. One pal brought along a gun, and with it they took off on a joyride...
...Roger E. Holman Pittsburgh
...promptly blasted the move as a threat to the committee's tradition of outspoken independence. "Arthur Flemming was dismissed for doing his job too well," charged Democratic Congressman Harold Washington of Illinois. Alluding to the body's lack of enforcement power, National Urban Coalition President M. Carl Holman said, "I don't see how you gain anything, even symbolically, doing something like this." Yet other black leaders interpret the firings as all too symbolic of the Administration's retreat on such civil rights issues as school integration, affirmative action and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which...
...Holman Jenkins...