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...little more than a year ago, with the economy gloomy, I suggested in these pages that we spike the water with Prozac. The Administration chose to invade Iraq instead, which served much the same purpose -- lifting the national mood -- and was probably also a very good thing for the world. (The toll on the Iraqis was horrible, but so was the prospect of Saddam with the Bomb...
Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...laughing matter for blacks and other Americans of color. They seldom saw themselves in newspaper comic strips, which were as segregated as the society whose goings-on they caricatured. Suddenly, however, the color barriers are falling down. As rap music goes mainstream and movies by black directors like Spike Lee and John Singleton become mass-audience hits, African-American cartoonists are tickling the public fancy in newspapers across the country...
...dish up Dirt, Lang and its publisher, Bobbie Halfin, rounded up an all- male staff on the West Coast. The editor in chief is Mark Lewman, 24, a.k.a. Lew. He and Dirt's art director, Andy Jenkins, 27, and photo editor, Spike Jonze, 21, got to know one another while working at Freestylin', a Los + Angeles-based bicycling magazine. Their own publication, Homeboy, which Lewman calls "a skateboard magazine with everything from dance techniques to recipes," folded after six issues, but the threesome had honed their skills. As for other qualifications, Dirt's introductory editorial points out that all three...