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Scatter-site housing is almost as thorny a problem as busing. The antagonists are principally the same: whites protecting their hard-won privileges v. blacks trying to break out of the ghetto. In a bizarre twist of principle, a group of Chicagoans has brought suit in U.S. district court to prevent proposed housing projects from "polluting" their neighborhoods. Their legal foundation: the National Environmental Policy...
Films made expressly for black audiences are not so much a new genre as several old genres given a black twist. The latest type to be adapted is that venerable Hollywood standby, the western. Three current examples...
...Godfather. Typical love stroy with an interesting twist: boy meets girl, boy marries girl, girl is wiped out. Savoy...
...military and diplomatic developments spurt and twist, no one can predict the outcome with any certainty. As Neff puts it, the only real constant in Viet Nam is the ever present element of surprise. Therefore, he says, "I no longer bother saying that I'll never be back...
...better hat up, Rodent, because it looks like Black Man is here to stay. Thanks to Tom Floyd, a Gary, Ind., commercial artist, young blacks can look up to an authentic soul hero. The first edition of Black Man Comics will shortly hit the newsstands with a very soulful twist on the requisite introductory issue: like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel, Black Man is born of the transformation of a clean-cut young man into a creature possessed of superhuman powers...