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...riot illuminates long-simmering hostilities between Washington's Latino underclass and the black power structure. Many African-American residents were shocked to learn that Hispanics have a list of grievances against them that mimic black complaints about discrimination by whites. Hispanics complain that they hold only 1% of the jobs in local government though they constitute 5% of the population. They also say they are routinely harassed by the mostly black police force...
...problem, Prince directs the play in slow-motion, forgetting that theater should not mimic real life. Theater, it has been said, is real life with the boring bits cut out. Unfortunately, Family Secrets gives us nothing but boring bits. We see Diane dig through old boxes, we see Theresa walk slowly up the stairs, and we can do nothing but writhe in bored agony...
...wartime. The kind of discipline that war necessitates is alien to democratic principles. The challenge is to keep reasonable efforts to win a war from mushrooming into repression. The Gulf War cannot become an excuse to prostitute American democracy. If the only way we can defeat Iraq is to mimic its form of government, the war is not worth fighting...
Perhaps Bradlee's greatest innovation was the Post's Style section, which led papers around the U.S. to drop their dowdy women's sections and mimic the biting profiles and flashy features by Sally Quinn, now Bradlee's wife. But the section that was once all snap and vinegar has gone flat under Downie. A profile of Senate majority leader George Mitchell, one of the Democratic Party's harshest critics of President Bush, devoted only a sparse paragraph to his romance with Janet Mullins, a senior Bush Administration official. Laments a Post reporter: "The old Style would have published...
...small circle of friends to Boston for the symphony, with a stop at Goodspeed's, a rare print-and-book shop in the city. There he purchased the 1850s print of the Merrimack River and Concord that hangs above the stereo in his living room. He is an accomplished mimic, doing a wicked imitation of Meldrim Thomson Jr., the archconservative former Governor who named him attorney general...