Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boom box. By day's end, though, the neighborhood has erupted. Sal and Raheem start fighting about the loud music; the cops arrive and, in the struggle, kill Raheem; Mookie throws a trash can through his employer's window; the place goes up in a puff of black rage...
...rage of race is exactly what has stirred a righteous debate over Lee's movie. After it lost the top prize at last month's Cannes Film Festival (to a comedy by another young American, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape), jury member Sally Field told Lee she fought to get him a prize. The film's detractors called it facile and irresponsible; Lee responded by accusing his critics of racism...
...everything would have been fine. "Sure, sure," said three of his creditors, who had heard it all before. They forced him into bankruptcy over $60,000. Six months later, he got a quarter of a million dollars bonus and paid off all his creditors except the three. When his rage at them subsides, he may pay them too. I hope...
...rage of race stirs a righteous debate over Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. But the real question is, just what is this muddled movie trying to prove...
...matter how effective the programs are, they are indisputably too late. Violence-prone youths need to be identified and helped before they explode in rage. Reporting of physical and sexual abuse in particular should be encouraged. The earlier the intervention, the greater the chance of success. All youngsters could also benefit from improved sex-education programs that explore the emotional as well as the mechanical aspects of sex. Some schools have begun offering special courses in preventing violence. A ten-session curriculum, designed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the Massachusetts commissioner of public health, is being used in several high...