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...scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. Her lightness put her atop the hierarchy of virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense of the new film is its persistent vaunting of intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote the black critic Theophilus Lewis, reviewing a 1931 Micheaux talkie, "Daughter...
...suite three floors up en route to meet the former U.S. President. For months Carter had been trying to arrange a secret meeting with Castro: they eventually decided that the occasion of Carlos Andres Perez's inauguration as President of Venezuela in late February 1989 would be the ideal time. But Castro's timing was now off. A nervous Carter immediately sent somebody to detain Castro for the minute it would take to hustle Lewis out of the room; if the New York Times ran a story about Carter with Castro, the ex-president's relationship with the Bush administration...
...would be ideal if [Harvard] followed some of the leadership we see in the corporate sector, where environmental reporting and energy efficiency targets are standard,” she says...
According to Green, “The ideal would be that the audience are aware of themselves as a group...
...Importance of Being Earnest (May 17): Director Oliver Parker, who also shot Wilde’s droll An Ideal Husband for Miramax in 1999, reunites on Earnest with Husband’s Rupert Everett, teaming him this time with Reese Witherspoon, Dame Judi Dench and Colin Firth. Despite the film’s cumulative pedigree, its promotional footage looks weak; the movie should be early summer fluff...