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...cities, the clashing of its citizens, the glaring challenge to its assumption of uniqueness and special promise -- in short, the possible implosion of its dream. California's woes suit the scale of its mythology; when things go wrong there, they go deeply, harshly, frighteningly wrong. The crimes seem more vicious, the smog more choking, the poor more sorrowful in the light of fluorescent disillusionment. The mad, fit joggers must run at night if they hope to breathe freely, and in some areas a television glowing dimly through a window can become a target for a drive-by shooter. In Northern...
...part ABC drama this week. Donna Mills, TV's most heart-wrenching sufferer, plays a businessman's wife who is falsely accused of ordering the murder of her husband's partner. It's all downhill from there. In jail she is brutally raped. Out on bail, she gets vicious phone calls ("Murderer! You're gonna burn in hell!"). At her trial, she is framed by lying lowlifes. Once in prison, she learns that her husband has emptied her bank account and disappeared. Her kids stop coming to visit. Even her lawyer drops her case without explanation. And Job thought...
...Joey, Murph's sidekick, Fish shows how easily a good-natured underdog can lose control and become a vicious aggressor. After terrorizing Gupta, Joey screams, "It's only a game," hoping that saying the statement loud enough will make it true. We see his frustration and passivity as he yells, "Murph, come and get us!" Rather than taking responsibility for his own actions, Joey wants to be rescued from himself...
This may seem ridiculously self-evident, but last Monday (before news of Jeffries's vicious treatment of Morgan became public), CUNY's board of trustees voted to renew his appointment as department chair for eight more months. They did not censure him. They did not fire him. In effect, they rewarded him, and again provided him with a forum to air his racist, vitriolic pap thinly masquerading as scholarship...
Later, I asked him what he thought about Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department. At this point, Jeffries's remarks turned vicious...