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...American politics, is an us-first industry. It rarely looks outside its own swagger and complacency to take notice of other cultures. And when it does, it often sees ethnic differences not as alternate world views but as tribal foibles, worthy only of our imperial derision. We ignore or scorn those who may one day be our masters...
...much to offer, if only someone would take it," Tyler writes, and Maggie is not shy about offering. Powerless in her own marriage, she attempts to control her son. Jesse responds to his mother's effusiveness with a combination of scorn and need, alternately damning her and making demands on her. Maggie's determination to help Jesse find happiness makes him incapable of finding...
They also provide individual spotlights. Page is uproarious as he explains to an unseen partner that he cannot love her because Your Feet's Too Big, and he and De Shields are a hoot expressing scorn and envy for a rival whom they see as Fat and Greasy. De Shields belts 'T Ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do in an up tempo that may be delightfully surprising to fans of Billie Holiday's torchy rendition, and revels in marijuana in The Viper's Drag. Woodard, too little used, nonetheless glows in Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, while...
...shoudn't be surprised at the film's scorn for the Turks. Many of the film's Turkish parts are played by Greeks, and the credits list Olympia Airways in the acknowledgements. Everyone knows about the antipathies between these two peoples. Of course, the Europeans never liked the Turks either, since they controlled access to farflung Asia. But while historical circumstance is some excuse for this biased depiction, Pascali's Island does not provide compelling support...
...praise from one part of the quirky, mixed-up world of publishing often means scorn in another. Wolfe's detractors--and he has more than his share--decry his attention to frivolous details, such as clothing, while others comment on Wolfe's habit of stereotyping certain sectors of society. Wolfe admits in an interview with New York magazine that he parallels his own writing on that of Blazac and Zola, and Bonfire is his attempt to do with New York what the two 19th-century authors did with Paris...