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...Samuel J. Rascoff's column appears on alternate Fridays...
Copley also painted the populist stirrer Samuel Adams, whose writings were pointing the way to the Declaration of Independence. Adams was as poor as a church mouse and had to pose in borrowed clothes; the portrait was paid for by his friend John Hancock (he of the signature). It is the only Copley painting to show a political figure engaged in conflict. Tight-lipped, all Calvinist fervor and republican anger, Adams points with one rigid finger at the royal charter of the Massachusetts colony, while gripping in the other hand a screed of protest from Boston citizens. In its sharp...
Other black actors--Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne--have drawn deserved critical acclaim, but none has achieved Washington's mix of box-office clout and acting craft. He is a black actor--proudly, fiercely so--who has succeeded in making that term merely descriptive, not professionally limiting. Few other actors of any color could sincerely say, as Washington does about fellow superstars Kevin Costner and Tom Cruise, "They haven't made any movies that I wanted to make. I haven't felt like I've missed anything." Yet he sees himself not as a standard-bearer but simply...
...Samuel J. Rascoff's column appears on alternate Fridays...
Kevin Harris, a friend of Randy Weaver who was involved in the Ruby Ridge siege, testified Tuesday that U.S. marshals started the gunfight that left William Degan, a marshal, and Weaver's son Samuel dead at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. "Harris is not a very credible witness," reports Elaine Shannon. "His comments came across as being very self-serving. He's already off the hook since his acquittal, and his testimony isn't going to shed any truth on the investigation." Marshals have testified that they were ambushed by the Weavers and that Harris shot Degan. Harris was acquitted on that...