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...such intelligence as an actress and it’s a very tough part. It’s tough to play an optimist convincingly. And as an actress I knew she could walk that very thin line between optimism and realism. We tend to think that optimists are not very bright…but all the great spiritual thinkers know that the ultimate intelligence is to go for the light, and that’s why Julianne’s so great...
...called those cannons,” said a man whose name we later learned was Juan Perkins. In Army fatigues and a brown fedora, Perkins was thin, with leathery brown skin sagging below his eyes. Pedaling towards them on a bicycle, he explained that he had been 16 when organizers led by Martin Luther King, Jr., pulled him and other children from school. The children were to replace adult demonstrators, many of whom had been shut up in Birmingham jails. “They told us older boys to be tough, how to get the police angry...
...Once Was.” Matt shook his head and retreated to the bathroom, resigned. He did not expect to make any conversation when, from his right, a growling voice: “Today is my 53rd birthday.” It was the unshaven Vietnam vet, sickly thin, in an old t-shirt and a worn-down hat. He smelled foul. “I don’t have any money. Haven’t even had one beer, and it’s my 53rd birthday.” Matt, pretty dejected himself, listened...
With such little time, the margin for error is so thin that “it’s like being on a tight rope and hoping you don’t trip,” says McCambridge. That’s exactly what happened with Snoop—the Boston Police Department unexpectedly demanded that Harvard hire extra police officers for the show, and the HCC simply didn’t have the money or the time to save the event...
...There is a thin line between righteous and self-righteous anger. An African-American friend, well acquainted with my political impatience, once said, "Joe, if you were black, you'd be in the streets with a machine gun." And so I can sympathize with Rangel and Belafonte-to a point. White racism is the original American sin; it helped create the culture of poverty that exists in places like New Orleans' Ninth Ward. And George W. Bush's dominant Republican Party was reborn in racism, having sided with Southern segregationists in the 1960s. But the tendency of some black baby...