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...atmosphere, in fact, threatens to dwarf the human players in the fore-ground--which may not be a bad thing. The actors, in keeping with their genetically programmed characters, tend to the robotic and expressionless. Hawke's efforts at making a ripple in this monolith are muted and only half-successful: he conveys something of Vincent's conscious vulnerability, but not his dogged resolution. Thurman, though a more emotive actor than her co-star, serves principally as a decorative addition, albeit a stunningly beautiful...
...what exactly does the book posit? The cornerstone premise for the Thernstroms is that things are not so bad as they seem, that both blacks and whites are better than, and different from, their stereotypes. Whites, they argue, are mischaracterized as a racist monolith, when in fact polls show a different picture. Whites surveyed in the 1940s wanted firm separation of the races, but by 1994 a majority told pollsters they have blacks as neighbors and close friends; at least a third say they have had blacks over for dinner...
Once a telecommunications monolith, the AT&T Corp. (1996 sales: $52 billion) is looking increasingly like a monolithic screw-up. This year alone the company has lost $12 billion in market value. Walter's exit, only eight months after he was plucked from R.R. Donnelley & Sons following a high-profile executive search, is the latest in a series of blunders that have cost AT&T in lost business, a slow leak of top executives and a falling stock price. Last August, Walter's predecessor, Alex Mandl, resigned after a seven-month tenure, similarly frustrated in his quest to become...
...cons in Con Air could almost have landed their plane on it. We speak of The Desk, the 20-ft.-long, T-shaped mahogany table once shared by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. From this monolith the two producers launched enough script-to-screen missiles to become Hollywood's premier action faction. Their two-hour commercials for American machismo (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Crimson Tide) made stars of their young actors and quillions for S. and B. Then in January of last year, Simpson died at 52 of a drug overdose. The industry asked, Whither--or wither...
...There are equally wonderful guys around at my university," he says. "Other voices and other minds bring different points of view, so that people don't think that black America is some big monolith, marching lock and step behind Skip Gates and company...