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Gore recalled the days when she (then Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson) and her roommate double-dated Al Gore and his roommate Tommy Lee Jones '69, the actor who played Clay Shaw in Oliver Stone...
...reflected in the TV monitor essential to his life and work. This, combined with the sound of Hawking's voice synthesizer, reinforces our sense of his isolation and immobility and the idea that we are in the presence of pure, disembodied thought, a little like that which George Bernard Shaw imagined as the end of evolution in his play Man and Superman. That the metaphorical richness of this hypnotic movie has been accomplished by such simple means is a mark of its excellence...
...sessions because they can vent their feelings of frustration, often born of their sense that society perceives them as bad parents. The black male has become the focal point of blame for the deterioration of the African-American family. But in many cases such blame is misdirected. Devon Shaw, 24, whose three children range in age from six months to four years, was just out of high school when his first child was born. He doesn't like the way the system "lets you know what we're doing wrong, not what they're doing wrong." Smalley, who now works...
...anger -- raw, rude and cruel -- and one reason the song's so shocking is that in postliberal America, black anger is virtually taboo. You won't find it on TV, not on the McLaughlin Group or Crossfire, and certainly not in the placid features of Arsenio Hall or Bernard Shaw. It's been beaten back into the outlaw subcultures of rap and rock, where, precisely because it is taboo, it sells. And the nastier it is, the faster it moves off the shelves. As Ice-T asks in another song on the same album, "Goddamn what a brotha gotta...
Romance, in Misalliance, is less a consuming or ennobling passion than an excuse for conversation. In Shaw's theater, verbal sparring may be a more socially acceptable pleasure than sex, but it is hardly an innocent one, as its main appeal seems to be outdoing and occasionally humiliating another person. The characters' drive to manipulate each other through ideas reflects Edwardian bourgeois society's obsession with class and the power of appearances...