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Linked in a funny and scalding love-hate relationship, two half brothers, one black and one white, play out their fantasies in a tin shack in South Africa and become symbols that laugh, cry and bleed...
They live in a tin shack in the colored ghetto outside Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The white brother, Morris (J.D. Cannon), an intense, broody, mothering sort, keeps house for the pair. The black brother, Zachariah (James Earl Jones), is one of nature's children, open-faced and openhanded. He tends a park gate where he shoos away any colored child who tries to enter. Every night Morris readies a ritualistic footbath for Zach's raw, swollen feet. But in the realm of color, skin-deep is heartdeep and there is no balm for those abrasions...
...Fortnight ago, Vincent Muratore, 43, rose before dawn to go to his wholesale produce stall at the market. He got as far as his car when someone fired through the rear window, killing him instantly. Two days later, Truck Gardener Antonio Monaco, 39, was gunned down outside his shack...
...stopped wide-eyed for a moment and looked incredulously at her. Then he seemed to catch his breath, and he began walking again, very rapidly, in a very straight line, head diving for shelter beween his shoulders. She shut her book efficiently and strode to the porch of the shack, taking its three steps in a single jump. She knocked...
...schools, to go to the free schools. None did out of principle, but Dickie was joined by three white students who are the children of poor farmers. One is a girl of seven, another a boy of eight. The third is Brenda Abernathy, 16, who lives in a tumbledown shack. Her ordeal, rising out of the poverty of her father, is tougher than Dickie's, but Superintendent Sullivan was heartened by her presence, however reluctant. Said he in his opening prayer: "We ask you to bless the students and to encourage them to take advantage of an opportunity denied...