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...slave quarters vanished long ago. The blackened chimney of the plantation house still stands in the wooded farm country of Prince Edward County, 60 miles southwest of Richmond. Vanessa Venable's ancestors, who were slaves there, dug the clay that made the bricks...
...problem with Thoreau is that, in the end, it seems a little thin. The messages of noticing nature, bucking authority and getting involved have been preached over and over, and no new twists are added here. Thoreau's treatment of Williams (Karl Lampley), a runaway slave, even seems a little paternalistic, undercutting its supposed morality. Because the play's idealism is old and worn out, it does not affect one as it might have. Thoreau's story--except the sequence about the death of his brother, which is affecting--is not emotionally powerful. The play lacks the emotional or intellectual...
...cannot exist 'half slave, half free' in women's rights," Yard said. "One hundred and thirty years ago we fought a civil war because this country could not exist 'half-slave half-free.' Once again, America is embattled...
...country, we don't sentence our artists to death, like the Ayatollah, or send them off to slave labor camps, like Stalin," wrote Professor of English Robert S. Brustein in the October issue...
...serene editing room at 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks (named by Lee for the never realized proposal for every freed slave after the Civil War), a renovated three-story firehouse in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, Lee is relaxed working with a coterie of close friends, many of whom go back to his days in college and film school. Those who know him say he is usually quiet, sometimes temperamental. "Spike is warm, but if you expect him to say, 'You look so wonderful,' you can forget it," says Ross, who is co-producer of Do the Right...