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Another strong feature of To Be Young, Gifted, and Black is its refusal to view Hansberry's life entirely through the prism of race relations. As the script convincingly demonstrates, problems of sexuality and artistic integrity occupy the Playwright's work as frequently as racial issues. The tension between her role as Black spokesperson and her individual identity is exposed in one scene in which characters from Hansberry's past encircle her and silence her voice with their own shouts...
Blumenthal looks at events through a catchy, pop-culture prism: Dukakis is the personification of "safe sex"; Jackson is "the Cat in the Hat." The / author is best at describing intractable topics, such as the complex origins of Bush's foreign policy. But when politics intrudes, he sometimes seems to miss the point. Blumenthal is still at pains to explain Hart's "philosophy" -- something that in the public mind boiled down to little more than unsafe sex -- and he makes no attempt to explain the self-destructive impulses involved in the Donna Rice affair. Similarly, Blumenthal accuses the Dukakis campaign...
Their answers surprised me, perhaps because we in the U.S. are tempted to see the triumph of democracy in Eastern Europe wholly through an American prism: as a triumph of American values as opposed to human values. The voices I heard in East Berlin told me this is a mistake -- presumptuous, wrongheaded, shortsighted...
...editorials calling his brother a traitor. Daughter Cristiana, 35, is a director of La Prensa. Her sister Claudia, 36, was the Sandinista Ambassador to Costa Rica until last year. The private pain of the Chamorro family is a microcosm of Nicaragua's national agony. And Dona Violeta is the prism through which it is seen...
...Prism was formed because we had the feeling that a lot of biracial people don't get to discuss their experiences. Their parents don't know--they aren't biracial--and if you don't have brothers or sisters, you don't have someone who knows how you feel," she said...