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...draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King, who was in South Africa for the installation of Desmond Tutu as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the highly charged meeting was one of the less controversial moments of a week that drew her into the vortex of the country's complex racial politics. King had originally planned to see both State President P.W. Botha and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the moderate leader of South Africa's six million Zulus. But Winnie Mandela and the Rev. Allan Boesak, a founder of the United Democratic Front, an antiapartheid umbrella group...
...dallying with his second wife Dawn (Barbara Williams), a radical and intellectual white beauty, we know the couple is a bi-racial conjugal stereotype, but it's clearly a stereotype with some factual basis. And the blow by blow (and blow and blow) of Pryor being lapped into the vortex of the Hollywood scene is painfully compelling. The scenes are nothing if not the typical cinematic version of sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll in the fast lane, but once again the stereotype earns credence from its factual basis...
...Hall of Mirrors (1967), a pot-smoking disk jockey in New Orleans stumbles into the fringes of a radical right-wing uprising. Dog Soldiers (1974) depicted California drug traffic as the Viet Nam War coming home to roost. A Flag for Sunrise (1981) showed some misfits sinking into a vortex of Central American revolution. The background stakes in Children of Light are, by comparison, inconsequential. A movie budgeted at a mere $7 million will go down the tubes if Lu Anne somehow manages to play her affliction out to its final scene and destroy herself. Whether Walker lives or dies...
...midst of coming to grips with his life, by writing a personal account of the Vietnam War. But his aunt suddenly hangs herself and leaves him the house. Strangely, he cannot bring himself to sell the old thing, and is drawn back into the evil vortex...
concentrated over there, in an increasingly thick and crammed vortex, as when a magnet hidden under a sheet of paper attracts iron filings, making patterns that become darker one moment, lighter the next, and in the end dissolve and leave on the white page a speckling of scattered fragments...