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...golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, then use them to solve white folks' mundane problems instead of helping black folks by, say, routing the Ku Klux Klan...
...Woods not because he is partly black but because he is the game's No. 1 player, and the second editorial did call upon Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to protest as well. But asking Woods to lead the charge still struck me as implying that only a Magic Negro could be expected to wave his putter like a magic wand and singlehandedly settle the bitter quarrel between two entrenched camps. The people drafting Woods seem to feel that he has a special obligation to spearhead the assault on discrimination at Augusta simply because his multiracial background supposedly makes...
...told TIME? Where's the heat on such topflight pros as Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, David Duval? None of them individually have the clout of Woods, but a protest by all of them would bring Augusta to its knees--and would let Tiger stop trying to be the Magic Negro and go back to playing golf...
...Sunday’s 2-1 victory over Providence proved, Botterill still has plenty of overtime magic left...
...emotional and stylistic registers. The opening film, Dazzling, at which both the director Li Xin and producer Sara Chen were present, is a racy, disjointed pastiche in riotous color, set against a pulsating techno soundtrack, with palpable influences as various as Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and magic realism. According to the director, a member of the up-and-coming Sixth Generation, “In their films, the technique compensates for the lack of compelling, or serious, subject matter.” In fact, technique actually enacts the content and is the perfect vehicle for conveying...