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...screen only to represent their respective ethnicities. The ambling always ended in racial slurs and suspicion. Like Black.White., nearly every action in the movie is explained by race. Carjacking? What else is a young black man to do? Suspicious of your Mexican locksmith? Well, what do you expect of upper-class white women? Racist cop feeling up your wife? That?s what happens when your dad gets screwed by affirmative action...
...Taming of the Shrew.” He will not bow under her fuss and noise. Neither will he abandon her.‘MUSICIANS’ CITY’Fountain is one of the few who has moved back into this bit of the Upper Ninth Ward. He is little less than a block away from the Habitat for Humanity site where some 40 Harvard undergraduates helped to lay foundations this past spring break.But the healthy construction site was one of the few things moving in the neighborhood. In a place hard hit by Katrina, the growing subdivision Musician?...
...their kitchen years after the eviction, they told me, a freshman at Harvard who had grown up in an upper-middle class suburb, how a poorly regulated system of eviction storage had forced them to pay thousands of dollars in arbitrary price increases, and ultimately allowed most of their belongings to be destroyed without compensation. More importantly, they told me how a public policy issue that before had seemed abstract and theoretical had actually had a very real impact on their lives...
...villain Haman, for example, the figure is seen side-on, his body twisted toward us, his crucified arms in extreme perspective. His despairing figure is reduced to fragments: the first drawing concentrates on his torso and legs and his strained posture. On the next sheet are his arms and upper torso, his head thrown back so we see not much more than his neck. Separately, the palm of his left hand faces us, open in a pleading gesture. Much more calm, and the epitome of male beauty, is the well-known figure of Adam. The painted figure, from the Sistine...
...This is the way Hollywood, in its so-called Golden Age, socialized America: by showing beautiful people in chic clothes trying to behave honorably - sometimes while singing and dancing. It's not a stretch to say that movies taught the underclass how to act like the middle and upper classes. High School Musical and Take the Lead may be no one's idea of classic, or even very good, movies, but they are in that gentle pedagogic mold. And they are catching tweens at maybe the last age when they might acknowledge - in their secret, not-yet-stereotyped hearts - that...