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Harvard (1-2), which gave up a 4-1 lead in the second set and a 3-2 lead in the fourth, just couldn't get it together as the Crusaders took advantage of almost every opportunity to spike the Crimson...
...effort at dialogue with society at large, such as that which Spike Lee has attempted to generate with his latest film Do the Right Thing, has got to be pursued now more than ever. Otherwise, today's subtler version of white racism will continue to go unnoticed, and more poor, uneducated Blacks will respond to their economic plight with the much publicized alternative that seems the easiest way out--turning to drugs...
...agenda for the summer of '89 seemed to be set early, as New Yorkers were introduced to the Spike Lee doctrine via his most recent film venture, Do the Right Thing. Reactions to the film ranged from the intellectual to the hysterical...
What did the movie actually do? Exactly what Spike Lee, in countless interviews, has said he wanted it to do--it made people think. New York's attention was now focused on the state of racial relations in the city, but the focus sometimes clouded the heart of the issue and exaggerated its most sensational effects...
...uncanny, the similarity between this scene and the earlier one at the party--but this was the real world. He and I, perfect strangers, could just as easily have been shouting racial epithets at each other in Bensonhurst or in the next Spike Lee movie--but, no. This was the real New York...