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...Angeles has lately become the stage for the nation's most gripping real-life dramas as well. The sort of narratives that Hollywood studios, in their quest for blockbuster profits, have almost abandoned--complex moral tales of actual human beings facing the ultimate issues of love and loss, rage and separation--have moved from the sound stages onto the streets. Beginning with the taped beating of Rodney King in 1991 (by far the most important footage to come out of L.A.'s image factory that year) and continuing through the O.J. Simpson trials and all their multifarious spin-offs...
...then there is Africa, across much of which the disease continues to rage unchecked. Already the sub-Saharan region accounts for more than 60% of people living with HIV worldwide, or some 14 million men, women and children. As many people will die there this year from the disease as were massacred two years ago in the Rwandan holocaust. The social consequences of this die-off are catastrophic. By the year 2000, nearly 2 million children in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia will have lost their parents to the disease...
...work forever. Or the side effects may worsen. Sometimes you still hear HIV-positive people refer to themselves as carriers. But the virus is only one of the things they carry. Along with it comes a weight of isolation, fears for the future and deep accumulations of rage, humiliation and grief. After all of that, naive hope is one indignity they are in no hurry to accept. So Schwartz is not about to start throwing around the future tense. "Everything is still phrased in the conditional for me," he says. "It's just that the conditions are more positive...
...comfortably than it had in quite a while, it was, under the skin, uncomfortable with its comfort. It was not itself. In spite of the evident prosperity, most people understood there was something rotten in Denmark. Whatever. Along with moderate politics went moderate will, moderate standards of conduct, moderate rage. The country might turn its head away from certain unpleasant, blatant facts, but it knew that it had done nothing about poverty, nothing about persistent racism, nothing for education, for its homeless or for its deserted children, rich and poor. Neither had it indicated that it would use its newly...
...Pride and Prejudice (A&E) Having arrived just when it seemed Austen-mania could be borne no longer, this lush production radiantly revived the rage for Jane. With perfectly observed sets and a keen grasp of the subversive social themes that underlie Austen's comedy, this mini-series put its competition to shame. PBS' Moll Flanders...