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Ginny and Rose, in their 30s, make a wonderful double portrait of sisters who love and understand each other. A reader could sit around their kitchen table for hours. They are not plotters but increasingly angry victims, and their rage makes them blind. Ginny has had five miscarriages, with no surviving children. Rose has had a mastectomy. Both fall in love with Jess Clark, a local boy who arrives back in town after 13 years well informed about environmental woes. Not only the sisters but also the father and his friend Harold fall victim to the poisoned land. Blinded...
...Rage in Harlem with robin Givens, Forest Witiker and Gregory Hines...
That was a curious choice of words from a man who has spent his public life distancing himself from racial stereotypes. But the image of Thomas symbolically dangling from a tree tapped into the pent-up rage all blacks feel at the violence and bigotry they have suffered for centuries: in this case, an appeal to racial resentments was the first resort of a black man accused of sexist crimes. To accept Hill's story, Thomas implied, was to join in a racist plot...
...wavered several times from tears to rage, just as Hill did. And without any of the flustered testimony that characterized his dodging in the first set of hearings, he categorically denied ever harassing Hill. Both had panel after panel of witnesses testify to their integrity. Both wrestled with inconsistencies in statements...
Which is, of course, utterly beside the point. All the posturing just ignored the symbolism. Members of Congress seemed in some cases to be genuinely surprised at the rage the revelations unleashed. Why is everyone interested in this, they wondered, and not my views on the coup in Haiti? All of which served to confirm the impression of a body of lawmakers out of touch with the lives of their constituents and in the habit of placing themselves above the law. This is the Congress, after all, that defends affirmative action and passes laws banning racial discrimination in hiring...