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AIENUOUSLAYER of etiquette usually hides the uglier side of political struggles. It is considered somewhat uncouth, for example, for politicians overtly to polarize an electorate around issues of ethnicity and race. But in both Chicago and New York, where power struggles of tremendous importance are currently raging, the veneer of civility has been lifted, leaving only the ugliness of racism...
...1920s Cicero achieved a measure of national notoriety for being the home base of Al Capone. In the early 1950s the industrial Chicago suburb achieved another, uglier kind of infamy after a young black bus driver and his family moved into the all-white town. A mob of several thousand whites hounded them out of Cicero and set fire to their furniture as police stood idly by. Today, some 30 years later there are still rackets and plenty of brawling honky-tonks along South Cicero Avenue. And the town is still astoundingly white. Indeed, residents seem nostalgic about Capone...
Given the customary alertness of the Jewish conscience, the Israeli behavior in West Beirut is nearly inexplicable. It seems almost impossible to absolve the Israel Defense Forces of something a good deal uglier than incompetence there. In any case, the civilized do not make contracts with beasts and give them guns and send them out to do a little messy surrogate killing. The beasts will eventually come to inhabit the soul of their sponsor...
...Reserve flood the U.S. with money, many economists believe that Chairman Paul Volcker should be some what less rigid. "The Fed will have to ease up," says Edward Yardeni of the E.F. Hutton brokerage house. "Otherwise, we'll face the risk that this recession will turn into something uglier, a depression...
...scenery is awkward too: the uglier neighborhoods in Cambridge. D'arcy Marsh's camerawork shows an every-day, harsh, concrete environment inside the cramped rooms or outside in the projects. Yet Donna looks almost lyrical as she sits dejectedly outside a beer factory after fighting with a cop and slumping into the weeds, illustrating the beauty that can be found on Cambridge's starker side...