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Michigan Republicans last week also selected a candidate for Governor: William Lucas, who is black, Roman Catholic and a former policeman and FBI agent. While still a Democrat, Lucas was elected sheriff and then, in 1982, executive of populous (2.2 million) Wayne County, which includes Detroit. He switched parties 15...
Lucas is the second black to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat, lost in California four years ago, but is trying again this year. (The nation's only black Governor: Pinckney % Pinchback, who was Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and served for a...
In the beginning was Walt. With Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Disney established the rules of the movie-fantasy universe and anchored it in the fears and wonders of childhood. But Disney's success turned the innovator into a caretaker at the mausoleum of his own style. After...
Such fanciful creatures are diversions as a lonely teenager (Jennifer Connelly) wanders the labyrinth in search of the castle where a malefic king (David Bowie) has detained her year-old brother. The maze, of course, is adolescence, and its dark lord is Bowie, the charismatic Kabuki sorcerer who offers his...
Pop is easy listening, easy watching, easy thinking. Yet it is also authentically democratic. Unlike serious painting or dance or poetry, the appreciation of popular culture requires no tutelage or special sensibility, not even close attention. Florenz Ziegfeld and George Lucas create art that is one-size-fits-all. Except...