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...former president says it "makes him sick" that the student activists' versions of the events of 1969 often portray him as a villain. "But it doesn't make any difference, because someday, the historians will straighten all this out," he adds...
...most sensitive question is how to portray Jesus Christ. Some tribes show him with a huge head to symbolize great wisdom or a massive chest to convey strength. But should he be depicted as an African? Urban Christians are more open to this than believers in the bush. Commissioned by the Catholic Cathedral in Kananga, Zaire, Enkobo Mpane created his first Bantu Christ from ebony in 1969. Parishioners rejected the work, so it hangs in a nearby convent. "Our parishioners still think of Christ as a Jew and not an African," reports Arley Brown, a U.S. Baptist teaching in Kinshasa...
...most part the essays are enjoyable--an honest and profound look at America, at human success and failure and at growing up. They portray an era and are perhaps more meaningful than the slew of backward-looking books that vomit up recent social history...
Agencies seeking to correct that lapse are being careful about how they portray those generations because research is showing that older consumers have an angry distaste for the traditional advertising images of frail and dotty elders. Says John Ferrell, chief creative officer for the Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos agency: "The way that older people are depicted has changed dramatically. We learned they do not always want to be shown pitching horseshoes, rocking in a chair and watching life...
...unfair to expect realism in a movie? Television shows like L.A. Law and Night Court certainly don't portray the legal field with complete accuracy, so why should one expect any more from True Believer...