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This same dissent labels Take Back the Night as "a wacko Left ideology-fest" and its organizers as "shrill feminists...with a bizarre political agenda...
Whatever its organizers say, Take Back the Night always seems to degenerate into a wacko-Left ideology-fest: shrill feminists equating the paucity of women faculty with rape; opportunistic professional victims fusing affirmative action and campus safety; monotonous chant-mongerers exhorting marchers to "--the patriarchy...
...Nazi-like police force" because it wanted to investigate one of its chapters' support for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Indeed, most black leaders -- complacent slaves on the "liberal plantation" -- are stripping their people of pride and initiative by insisting on welfare programs and affirmative action. Environmentalists -- "extremist wacko-nut cases" -- are "a bunch of socialists who want bigger government and poorer people." Some animal-rights activists "want the extermination of the human race...
...liked football and was absolutely certain that she could have been an excellent off-tackle, slant-type runner . . . 44 was her number. Forty-four was her bra size, too. This had held her back in life, she felt." Occasionally the other characters in these fragments become a little too wacko, as if they were acting out for the onlookers. But Powell has a unique and vigorous imagination, and his eccentricity, studied or spontaneous, is to be treasured and closely watched...
...connives in murder one, runs a cocaine cartel, robs decent folks blind -- and, when he is caught, shrugs off all remorse. His patron is a stately Mafioso (Paul Sorvino) who warns him to stay out of the drug business; Henry jumps right in. His best friend is a wacko hoodlum (Joe Pesci) who gets whacked by his own family; Henry sheds no tears. His mentor is an Irishman (Robert De Niro) who cuts Henry in on the biggest hijacking in American history; Henry's testimony sends him to jail. The lad's only regret is for himself...