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...older woman relates. It is about the friendship of headstrong Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and ladylike Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), two young women of the 1930s, and it involves home cooking, wife beating and a murder. It is an uneasy blend of (among other things) whimsy, melodrama, the Ku Klux Klan and feminist sentiment that coexists rather awkwardly with the modern story. Like most movies that wish mainly to warm our hearts, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES is basically a lie. But it works. In part that's because all the actresses ground their archetypal characters in strongly realized reality, in part...
...himself. He betrays a weakness of character -- a lack of grace, and guts, under pressure. His campaign for re-election hasn't even got tough. So far he faces opposition from a conservative pundit and TV talking head who has never run for dogcatcher, a former Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Pooh-Bah who was recently rejected by the good people of Louisiana, and a Democratic field that has yet to close ranks behind a compelling candidate or a coherent platform. Yet already Bush is running scared. Even when he is more than 5,000 miles from the nearest primary...
...once a member of the Ku Klux Klan or the neo-Nazis...
Barely a month after blacks and whites in New Orleans banded together to defeat former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in the Louisiana Governor's race, the city's newfound unity has been shattered by a controversial antidiscrimination law. For more than a century, many of the elite Mardi Gras krewes, which organize colorful carnival balls and parades, have been white, all-male organizations. But in a unanimous decision last week, the city council ruled that any krewe that bars blacks, Jews or women could not only lose its parade permit but also face criminal penalties...
Lots of luck. In Dubuque as elsewhere, racial debates frequently descend into ugly arguments over affirmative action, quotas, welfare -- and worse. Smelling fertile soil, Ku Klux Klan national director Thom Robb of Arkansas and a few of his cronies made an appearance three weeks ago, attracting about 150 residents to a rally. "You hear people saying that the Klan sounds kind of reasonable, and that's scary," says Francis Giunta, head of the Dubuque Federation of Labor. Plan supporters held counterdemonstrations. Even the Guardian Angels showed up for a few days. At Dubuque Senior High School, police had to patrol...