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...called Golden Age of movies, American blacks looked up at the screen and asked, "Where am I?" Then they looked closer and saw that the portrayals of blacks amounted to a racial libel...
...gruesome autopsy photograph of Martha Moxley's body flashed on a screen and the dot of a laser pointer moved across it as Connecticut chief medical examiner Wayne Carver directed the jury's attention to deep wounds in the girl's head. They were, Carver said, produced by the Toney Penna six-iron that police say came from a set of clubs owned by the defendant's mother. Carver said the great force of the blows pierced the girl's skull and brain and that one blow was so sharp and piercing, virtually a stab, that it dragged a lock...
...which proudly boasts of a cap to noxious sulfur dioxide emissions—actually rolls back previous restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the supposed cap is estimated by environmental groups to be too high to make any meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless cap were not enough to reject the “Clean Skies” initiative, there is also a clause in the bill that allows a system of “credits” so that older, pollution-heavy plants can purchase...
...silver screen, LUNG SIHUNG was everyone's favorite father figure. The Taiwanese actor played them all?the Tai Chi father, the chef father, father of a gay son, father of a woman warrior. His roles came to personify the Eastern patriarch caught in the winds of change sweeping the lives of his children. His careworn appearance was a factor in his fame. I originally wanted him in my productions because he had a face ethnic Chinese could identify with. But the reason Ang Lee and I cast Lung in the "Father Knows Best" trilogy?Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet...
...ladies should be called "bar girls" or "prostitutes." "Men in Chaweng had the idea that the girls were so lovely, the least one could do was lie about what they did for a living," remarks Aitkenhead, adding that she later stopped even noticing the girls, just "as you screen out billboards in London...