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Where Cinema calls Raisin "a writhing vital mess of tenement racism," Theater called it [ when it appeared on Broadway in 1959] "a well-crafted play...
...Raisin in the Sun. Tenement realism about family life in Chicago's black belt bursts out in a writhing, vital mess...
...Raisin in the Sun. Tenement realism about family life in Chicago's black belt bursts out in a writhing, vital mess...
...Raisin in the Sun (Columbia) is essentially a writhing, vital mess of tenement realism. Unfortunately, in this film translation of her 1959 Broadway hit. Scenarist Lorraine Hansberry apparently felt obliged to sprinkle the mess occasionally with Mammy's own brand of brown sugar, douse it frequently with the skim milk of human kindness that too often passes for social concern, and then serve it all up as a sort of pablum for progressives. Even so, the mixture makes pretty strong medicine for a society afflicted with what the author calls "acute ghettoitis...
...Party; both the Fur kers and the staunchly antiinist Garment Workers met e to inveigh against the bosses, inst capitalism, and against each r. Even the murals on the walls quare-jawed, muscular proletar- "building the industry of rica" -- call to mind the days tenement-dwellers transcend- the squalidness of their daily while singing "We Shall Not Moved...