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Wilkerson grew up in the midst of the "WASP society" of Shaker Heights, Ohio where "knee-jerk liberal" attitudes protected her from "blatant" exposure to racism. Her father is a doctor, her mother has a masters degree and is a homemaker. Being Black presented no disadvantages for Wilkerson. The children took every kind of lesson they wanted--Wilkerson studied ballet, gymnastics and skating--and they were "expected to bring home...
...those who were chosen received physical descriptions of the anonymous Nobel donors-plus Graham's own assessments. "A very famous scientist," he wrote on the description of one of the five available mail-order fathers (to whom he has assigned numbers 10 through 14), "a mover and a shaker, almost a superman." Replied one of the women: "I'm very excited about this ... I'm tentatively going to select No. 13 because he's the youngest of the donors and has the highest IQ." As a condition for receiving Nobel sperm, the applicants agreed to send...
...U.S.S.R. and China are bristling again, but bordering countries can breathe easily-for the time being. The squabble is over vodka, specifically the 600,000 cases a year that are exported to the U.S. Although imports are a mere drop in the shaker compared with the total 30.7 million cases of vodka sold in the U.S. last year, the Soviets, with their Stolichnaya brand (on average, $10.50 for an 80-proof fifth), account for about 80% of import sales. Or did, until the invasion of Afghanistan set some flag-waving saloonkeepers to unclogging their drains with the stuff and many...
...Michael Harrington, a long-time socialist mover and shaker and author of The Other America, rammed home the message: "...corporate power is the most important single cause of our troubles. That is not a frayed, obsolete slogan out of the populist past. As we will see, it is the critical, unprecedented fact of the present and future...
...what's a family when you've found a soul-mate, another mover and shaker and eater of Maalox? Tynan's lack of concern for his non-political life is matched and complemented by Karen's similar interests. In a scene reminiscent of Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch's "business lunch" in Network, the senator and the lawyer share information about their upcoming confrontation with the Supreme Court nominee while performing stress tests on their new Posturepedic. Streep, tackling with stunning confidence an entirely different role from that she played in The Deer Hunter, evinces a magnetic attraction to power...