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Those who enforced a system of separate and inferior institutions based on a color line that extended ridiculously to one drop of blood deserve no respect. The white South was so morally sick that it even segregated its Christian churches. White Southerners commonly refused medical care to dying blacks. They created such a dehumanizing climate that black men could not even look at white women for fear of being lynched. A typical example of the irrationality and paranoia that consumed most of the white South was its reaction to W.E.B. Du Bois's American classic, The Souls of Black Folk...
...mind," he began, "Hillary wants to look at the documents" to support Susan and James' calculations on the yellow pad. So Hillary didn't trust her, Susan thought. Well, she'd be only too happy to give her the documents. She had more files than the bank. She was sick of the paperwork and the responsibility. Let Hillary take it on if she was suddenly so concerned that Susan might be cheating her. Susan put all the documents she had into a large box; her brother, state senator Bill Henley, dropped them off with a state trooper at the Governor...
Macy is an ace at doing hysteria in a narrow range, and Buscemi scores as a sick goofus whom one witness IDs as "funny-lookin'--more than most people even." There's enough gore to make this a Mystery Violence Theater. After some superb mannerist films, the Coens are back in the deadpan realist territory of Blood Simple, but without the cinematic elan. Fargo is all attitude and low aptitude. Its function is to italicize the Coens' giddy contempt toward people who talk and think Minnesotan. Which is, y'know, kind of a bad deal...
...Scribner; 270 pages; $22), the third novel by A.M. Homes, a critic certainly feels the impulse to pull a Croce. Why actually wade through the book when we know from the publicity what we're in for: a story that demands to disturb and repulse, a portrait of a sick mind filled with sexual imagery repellent enough to make Robert Mapplethorpe photos look like Tommy Hilfiger ads by comparison...
...have to know how to deal with people [and] have a sense to humor [to deal with] sick, crazy and drunken people," he says...