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...pimps interviewed for this documentary strive to project a sort of outlaw charm as they recount their stories. To hear them tell it, they provide a useful social service while protecting their "hos" from the vicissitudes of street life. But repetition erodes charm. What emerges instead is a portrait of crudely patriarchal males, harshly exploiting pathetically damaged women, then perversely wasting their profits on childish displays of outrageous clothes and cars. Loutishness without self-awareness remains loutishness--and it is finally depressing...
...matter what George Curry accomplishes during the remainder of his journalistic career, he will be remembered for one thing: he was the editor who slapped a portrait of Clarence Thomas wearing an Aunt Jemima-style handkerchief on a 1993 cover of Emerge magazine. That shocking image outraged Thomas' supporters, of course, but it crystallized the disgust that many African Americans had begun to feel about the ultraconservative legal philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court's only black member. It also put Emerge on the map. "It let people know there was nothing and no one we were afraid to take...
...suspended defense attorneys, meager defense efforts during sentencing and dubious psychiatric testimony." And that's just the lead. The New York Times shone the light on Ronald G. Mock, a picaresque Texas public defender who has a wing of the state's death row named after him. The portrait is flattering neither to Mock nor Bush's courts. A similar Tribune investigation prompted Gov. George Ryan's moratorium on executions in Illinois - but though Gov. Bush made a calculated sidestep two weeks ago with his first-ever 30-day stay of execution, for Ricky Nolen McGinn, he seems likelier...
...With the new Radcliffe well on its way, those closest to the merger mingled and munched on hors d'oeuvres in April at the portrait unveiling of the last president of Radcliffe College, Linda S. Wilson...
...Portrait of the Comic as a Young...