Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director has been able to deal honestly with the life of a working-class woman, using neither pathos nor piquancy. Widowed by a beer brawl and left with two children, one illegitimate, Norma Rae is trapped in a one-industry, sexist little shitbox of a southern town. Her plight evokes far more sympathy than that of many recent feminist heroines like Erica from An Unmarried Woman or the French nymphets in One Sings, the Other Doesn't. While directors no longer trumpet forth about making black films, many still want to make women movies. Ritt escapes this well-intentioned...
...early '50s, they called him Charlie Mingus. A few years later he announced that Charlie was a name for a boy or a horse--and Charles he has remained. Or simply Mingus, the name as distinctive as its bearer. Given a career that is a case study in the plight of the black American artist, it's not hard to see why the musical importance of Charles Mingus has so often been eclipsed by the drama of his troubled life. Even as he first established his unique and revolutionary talent as a bassist, Mingus seemed bent upon becoming...
Dubin is ultimately a coward--one more sympathetic to his plight (and nearer his age) might call him very human?--but in the end the book is wearing. He obviously sees himself as likable (as does Malamud), but it becomes harder and harder to understand why. The problem is that the book becomes too much like Dubin--one of those people who draw you into their lives with the message, "I can change, I want to change, all I need is for you to believe in me, love me and I will change." And it ends with Dubin sneaking...
...which would only have diverted immigrants to the other 1993 miles of unfenced border, was more an instance of window-dressing than of a sincere attempt to slow unlawful migration of impoverished Mexicans. INS Commissioner Leonel Castillo, whose grandparents were Mexican immigrants, has instituted policies more sympathetic to the plight of the immigrant. Not only has he reduced to half the personnel working to seize Mexicans living illegally in the United States, he has also upgraded the detention centers where illegal immigrants are housed before being shipped back to Mexico. Carter, too, may be softening his stance; while he advocated...
Caplan said she felt torn between emphasizing the plight of migrant workers in general and "telling the special story of Laura, who now lives in two cultures, not totally belonging to either...