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...SINCE IN THE HEAT OF THE Night has a good ole cracker had a culture shock like the one Earl Pilcher Jr. (Robert Duvall) receives in A Family Thing. It comes in the form of a deathbed letter from the woman he has always believed was his mother. In it she tells him that though he looks, acts and thinks white, he is half black, the product of a union six decades ago between his father and the family's African-American maid, who died giving birth to him. His adoptive mother's last wish is that he find...
Despite months of war rumors, it came as a shock when the first explosions shattered Grbavica's peace on April 4, 1992. "Around noon the shooting started," says Rabija. "Alen was out, and we were afraid because we didn't know where he was." To her relief, he made his way back home through sporadic gunfire, and the Oprhals spent the next few days indoors, making and receiving telephone calls filled with worry and rumor. "Nobody knew what was going on," says Kruno. In fact, Bosnian Serb nationalists, backed by the Yugoslav army, were firing the first shots in their...
...accounts Hamilton was odd. The woman he always believed was his sister was, in reality, his mother. His father, Thomas Watt, 65, abandoned the family when Hamilton was 18 months old. He never took interest in him again until he learned, with shock, of the killings. "I can't live with this," Watt said. "I brought this monster into the world." It was a world that proved difficult for a man whose compelling life interest appeared to be youth leadership--but who was regarded in town as a pedophile. His attempts to organize boys' clubs ended when parents withdrew their...
...JULY 1993, DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE counsel Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport." Nine days later, Foster was dead. Shock at the apparent suicide of one of President Clinton's top aides turned to mystery, then suspicion, as the White House became entangled in an ever widening net of questions. Among the confidential matters Foster was working on when he died was the Clintons' investment in Whitewater, an Arkansas land development launched in 1978 with the Clintons' partners...
...passionately to a repressive moment," she says. "Writing is an act of aggression, and I wanted to take on sexuality." Unfortunately, she takes it on too obviously. At certain points in the book, her pedophile narrator addresses the reader directly to explain that the book is not meant to shock but to show that he is really no different from us. "I am no better or worse," he insists. "A social construct supported by judge, jury and tattletales has put me away because I threaten them." In other words, don't judge another man's form of sexual expression, dear...