Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recent reports by Jackson's Clarion-Ledger show that the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a now defunct agency created by the state to battle desegregation, may have interfered in the jury selection for Beckwith's second trial. The newspaper found evidence that commission members relayed information about prospective jurors to Beckwith's lawyer. Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter is pushing for a new indictment, but that will not be easy. Many witnesses have died, and the murder weapon is missing...
...that McGuane is complaining. A fit 50, he has weathered the storms of literary celebrity, Hollywood, alcoholism, two failed marriages and at least one critical scalping, only to retain his stature as one of the most original American writers on either side of the Mississippi. This fall his seventh novel, Keep the Change, was published, ending a four-year hiatus from long fiction. The New York Times proclaimed it the "best book he has written to date." Almost as sweet is the news that Keep the Change is already the best- selling book of his career. No wonder that McGuane...
...lies, and the camera ascends to take in Long's old domain. Randy Newman's poignant song Louisiana 1927 -- a cracker's lament about a devastating flood -- reaches its apogee of symphonic paranoia with the line "They're tryin' to wash us away." Just then, the camera discovers the Mississippi roaring past, washing away Earl and his wily, wild, pre-TV tradition of Southern politics. What has happened down there is that the wind has changed, and for its last three minutes Blaze finds potent film poetry to express that change. The rest of the movie lacks Earl's heroic...
...years later, Berryman himself jumped into the frozen waters of the Mississippi River and died...
This is really a corollary to providing equal opportunity. The American myth of the level playing field can never become reality as long as children in Roxbury and rural Mississippi do not have the same access to education as children in Greenwich...