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...million other blacks who fled northward between 1910 and 1970 in one of the greatest transplantations in American history. "The first migration was a huge wave crashing on the beach," says Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land, a forthcoming book about this vast crossing. "This is the small undertow running back...
...Underclass has less of everything -- and that includes the services others take for granted: police protection, clean streets and decent schools. Families struggling to escape the undertow of ghetto life cannot succeed if their children are unable to go outside and play, if their streets are war zones, and if the schools are relegated to being holding pens. The government cannot surrender; it must provide the same services to Underclass neighborhoods as to the rest of society...
...game, you could, inside the Feelies, grab on to the vintage strains of the mesmeric Velvet Underground and strong traces of up-to-the-minute bands like R.E.M. What is fresh about the Feelies is the kind of sardonic innocence they bring to tunes like What Goes On and Undertow. Anyone who hears this new album will feel good first but think about it later...
...opportunities of a middle-class upbringing. But they worry about the hurdles their third son must now clear, barriers that seem even higher than when Abel and Xavi were in school: the increased prevalence of drugs and alcohol, the growing temptations of early sex. They worry about a terrible undertow that drags children down, that somehow robs them of hope or motivation...
Like last year's Blue Velvet, House of Games deals with a supposedly normal character who gets pulled into an undertow of evil and finds, to her surprise, that she enjoys living out the part of herself she's always repressed. Lindsay Crouse is Dr. Margaret Ford, a committed workaholic who is unable to enjoy the success of her first book, entitled Driven: Obsession and Compulsion in Everyday Life. She is as obsessive and lost as the people she treats. Sucking ferociously on cigarette after cigarette, she is the picture of neurosis...