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Black Americans can always tell when a book, play or movie about black people is an accurate or realistic one: it is good when it gets a bad review. Richard Schickel, in reviewing Roots [Jan. 24], finds it incomprehensible that a black American would view all whites as equally responsible for the institution of slavery. But even when New England abolitionists mouthed cliches about the evil of slavery, they would wear cotton clothing, while sitting on furniture handcrafted by slave artisans, eating food cooked by black women. Slavery was an all-pervading fact of American life. All Americans benefited from...
...artistic merit. Leading TV critics had, at best, serious reservations about the series, and many panned it outright. The Chicago Sun-Times' William Granger, complaining of "puerile" writing and "caricatures," described Roots as "so transparently bad at times that I was filled with embarrassment." TIME'S own critic, Richard Schickel, labeled the TV production as "Mandingo for middlebrows." He wrote that Roots offered "almost no new insights, factual or emotional," about slavery; instead, there was "a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions...
...common needs of both keypunch operators and tough cops. One might wish that The Enforcer had the cinematic smarts imparted by Director Don Siegel to the original Dirty Harry, a tenser, tauter piece of work. But The Enforcer is fairish fun?and certainly no threat to liberal democracy. Richard Schickel...
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