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When he steps out of that automobile and heads for his sometime home far across Los Angeles, D-FENS steps into a contemporary urban nightmare. It's all here: panhandlers and drive-by shootings, a terrorized fast-food restaurant, even a neo-Nazi skinhead spewing hate. In effect, director Joel Schumacher is re-creating, quite artfully, all the horrific images on the 11 o'clock news. And it is impossible to distance yourself from these pictures the way you can when they are surrounded by weather and sports...
...Paris claimed that Lam "forged the link between African sensibility and European tradition," and he wasn't exaggerating much. But in 1941, correctly surmising that a black Surrealist who had fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War would have a short future under the Nazi occupation of France, Lam returned to Cuba; from there, his work became a cultural bridge between the Caribbean and New York...
Revenge, soaked in hatred and hormones, may explain some of the Soviet troops' behavior. But it is not a good all-purpose explanation. Revenge -- which in the Nazi-Soviet context perversely takes on the color of almost a kind of brutal justice -- does not explain Nanjing in 1937. The Chinese had not committed atrocities against the Japanese people when the Japanese marched into Nanjing and raped -- and often murdered -- tens of thousands of Chinese women. Nor can revenge entirely explain the behavior of Pakistani troops who in 1971 raped more than 250,000 Bengali women and girls in Bangladesh...
...experience is part of an extraordinary new museum that opens this week: the Beit Hashoah -- Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Built for $50 million by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human-rights and research organization named after the famed Austrian Jew who helped bring more than a thousand Nazi war criminals to justice, the museum aims to teach tolerance -- by holding a mirror up to visitors of every race and ethnic group, reflecting their prejudices and conflicts. In the giant hall, which covers half a city block, visitors will be able to walk through a multimedia history of hate...
...called, obscurely, oi music. A better name might be Swasrock: an ugly subgenre influenced by punk and heavy metal -- but glorifying such far-right symbols as the Nazi swastika. The music, played by some 50 bands, provides a bond for Germany's neo-Nazi movement, a suspected source for much of the xenophobic violence that has claimed 17 lives in the past year. In a swift crackdown, German police raided studios, homes and offices, confiscating thousands of records and CDs. Whether anti-Nazi laws were broken remained unclear, since the operation produced no arrests...