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...MALCOLM...
Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...MALCOLM...
Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...this year, it is also offering 10-year loans to laid-off workers who want to go into business. Since the program began last January, the TVA has reviewed 22 applications and approved three: a dry-cleaning operation, a Christian bookshop and a home- improvement store. Cathy and Malcolm Phillips, a married couple who both worked as nuclear technicians until they were laid off last month, took out a $49,000 loan to open the home center, using its inventory as collateral. Says Cathy: "It's a come-around-once opportunity to start a second life...