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...problem is that the characters are not doing their jobs but talking about them. The help they get from Onna White's routine choreography is tangential: who of us dances out work life any way, except dancers? The songs are written by too many hands to possess a distinctive signature, though James Taylor's Millwork with Bobo Lewis is a pensive pent-up lamentation...
...older are apt to be juggling a career and the care of children, often without a husband. They have figured out their lives for themselves. They have style. They are grownups, and they don't conceal their ages; if their lives are tougher, they frequently possess a certain centeredness and strength that is unavailable to those much younger, who seem somehow unformed, incomplete, far less interesting-and sometimes unbelievably ignorant. Not long ago, a Radcliffe senior confessed that she did not know what the Holocaust...
...news that we possess the resources, technology and the imagination to adequately feed all of the four billion human beings who walk the earth; what we lack is the will...
...reverse discrimination? Should shows about blacks be held to a higher standard of relevance, sensitivity and accuracy than those about whites? Though any hard and fast rules would be foolish, an effort to do just that might help correct some deep-seated racial misunderstanding. Whites know about whites, and possess a built-in reality adjuster that makes all the necessary corrections and allowances for exaggeration and stupidity when whites are being portrayed. Blacks know something about whites too. But whites in the U.S. still do not know all that much about blacks; most whites pos sess no automatic focus mechanism...
...effect, students are being paid lip service regarding their role in University policy; the faculty and administration possess ultimate control of all policy decisions...