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...approach won't wash today. Instead there is a growing recognition that cultural preferences and values influence what black consumers buy. A De Paul University study found, for example, that African Americans prefer products that acknowledge their ethnic heritage and respond best to ads that reflect the full panorama of the black community...
That was just one of the scrapes Price survived while gathering material for his shattering novel Clockers, a 599-page panorama of crime-and-drug-infested streets that appeared in May to rave reviews and is now a best seller. To write it, Price spent three years hanging out in Jersey City with cops, cocaine dealers and seemingly everyone else in the meanest parts of town. At a time when the Los Angeles riots have shocked the country into a pained awareness of its troubled neighborhoods, Clockers illuminates the underside of one city with laser-like clarity...
...narrator remarks, "But he will not die for a while yet." Instead of suspense, the emphasis of this novel falls on what it feels like to be alive and aware at a specific historical period, in this case the first six months of 1988. And Drabble's rather disjointed panorama of diverse characters caught in the amber of time produces an eerily convincing sense of life in a technologically advanced society, of the horrors that are reported electronically -- say, from the killing fields of Cambodia -- and those that may erupt immediately down the street or in the next room...
Frank Norris' novel McTEAGUE is a panorama of the U.S. at the turn of the century: cowboys, gold mines, the immigrant experience, the advent of electricity and the movies. At the core is a gruesome cautionary tale, aptly retitled Greed by Erich Von Stroheim when he made a nine-hour film of it in 1923. The book is both bad and great, its prose lopsided and its effects crude, its power and pathos undiminished. In adapting it anew, California's Berkeley Repertory Theater has retained all the virtues and many of the faults. The first half of Neal Bell...
...BOYS. The definitive Bette Midler movie -- all music, sass and high emoting -- is also a jazzy panorama of pop culture for half an American century. And even if you skip the movie, get the sound track, which features Bette's great and knowing pipes on excavated swing tunes like Billy-a-Dick and Stuff Like That There...