Word: racism
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...looked only at the subjects Suzan-Lori Parks has tackled--racism, homelessness, sexual hypocrisy--you might mistake her for a polemicist. Yet her dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and wondrous. Not one but two of her plays revolve around a character who makes a living as an arcade attraction playing Abraham Lincoln; patrons pay to impersonate John Wilkes Booth, grab a pistol and shoot him. (The image simply "burned itself into my mind," she explains.) Her spiky plays often take place in a strange nowheresville and feature Greek...
...Singapore," and one avidly awaits his consideration of Crosby's later film work: the rest of the "Road" series, the 1944 "Here Come the Waves" (with "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" sung by Crosby and Sonny Tufts in blackface, one of the latest films to use minstrel racism in a contemporary setting), the priest pictures ("Going My Way" and "The Bells of St. Mary's") and the mature work of the mid-'50s, when Bing finally grew up as an actor...
...think the Athletic Department does a very good job of creating a 'tolerant and comfortable environment,'" he says. "While addressing issues of alcoholism and gambling, it seems they assume that Harvard students are educated to be against racism, sexual harassment and homophobia, because they do not address these issues directly...
...Apparently, Card wasn't quite careful enough. By early Wednesday morning, the West Wing was deluged with calls from angry activists concerned that the administration was backing away from its pledges of unity and "healing the wounds" of racism...
...debate over America's war on drugs touches on nearly every hot button issue facing the country: Racism, sexism and class warfare all play their own critical roles in defining and further electrifying what has never been a simple exchange. In the past decade, an uproar has grown over the discrepancies between sentencing for possession of crack (which tends to surface in inner cities and often carries an extremely harsh punishment) and cocaine (the drug of choice among the upper class; repercussions tend to be much lighter) - a chasm that emphasizes race and class divides. Proportionately, more women than...