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...worked with is so lacking in flash. In a sting operation to nab a call-girl ring, Gigante is picked to go undercover as a pimp. He bristles, saying, "I don't see why the color of my skin automatically makes me a prime candidate to portray a pimp." (The captain, bristling back, says he'll get someone else for the job: "We've got plenty of guys in this precinct who are very much at home around prostitutes.") Rarely has TV portrayed casual racial stereotyping with as much humor or human understanding. Cop-show stereotypes come in for even...
Among the many books by Harvard graduates about their "Harvard experience," A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano aims to portray the dificulties encountered by a typical Chicano. In fact, the author, Ruben Navarrette Jr. '89-'90, is far from typical, and his autobiography presents issues of affirmative action, civil rights, growing up and adjusting to Harvard from a partial perspective, overshadowed much of the time by Navarrette's personality. His frequent criticisms of RAZA, the Mexican-American student association, add to the book's sense ofone-sidedness...
This fact makes the staff's effort to portray all opposition to the treaty as some crazy delusion of Ross Perot inaccurate and slightly offensive. Real people will lose their jobs because of this treaty. The staff seems to overlook that. One hopes that President Clinton and others will consider these job losses more important than does The Crimson, and see to it that attempts are made to retrain American workers who lose their jobs under the pact...
Ochs said talk shows often portray bisexuals as threats to monogamous relationships, emphasizing stories of husbands who had affairs with men outside of their heterosexual marriages and women who were unable to choose between two lovers, one of each...
Toni Morrison's brilliance does not lie in her ability to portray effectively a black woman's experience in America ((Literature, Oct. 18)). Though the idea of race, she realizes, is not part of reality, America's treatment of it has created oppression for those who have been defined by it. The experiences of black women in America are the experiences of those who are left out. Morrison writes of the experiences of all of us who are forced to conform to another's reality...