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Haircuts are the least of Greer's problems as Dubuque wrestles with a plan to force the town out of its time warp by aggressively recruiting minorities. During the 1940s and 1950s police advised blacks who stepped off the train to move on to the next town. Though the city's racist past is not unusual, its state of preservation is remarkable. "I was refused housing, insurance, you name it," says Ruby Sutton, an African American who moved to Dubuque from Chicago in 1962 when her husband was transferred by the railroads. "At least down South they were brutally honest...
...somebody blasted the skull of America open. In a few seconds of rifle fire in Dallas' Dealey Plaza, a time warp gaped. Slapped out of a pretty postwar reverie, we screamed bloody murder...
...nice, tossed-off air about them. The sets are spectacular, but their scale and luxe become oppressive. And they impose a peculiar burden on the director. He has a terrific way with action sequences, a genius for inventive detail that reads clearly even at his preferred pace, which is warp speed. But even he has to strain to fill these spaces; and his resort to a food fight, symbolizing Peter's rebonding with his old pals, the Lost Boys, is dismal and realized without conviction...
...political institutions are caught in a pre-cultural diversity and gender revolution time warp," Kunin said. "It is noteworthy that the political arena is the one area where women today are so conspicuously absent...
...stuff of legends, pulp novels and late-night reruns of the Twilight Zone: a 140,000-sq.-mi. stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that seems to swallow unfortunate voyagers like a space-time warp. During the past 45 years, more than 100 ships and planes have disappeared in the triangular region -- roughly bounded by Bermuda, Southern Florida and the Greater Antilles -- often in circumstances as murky and mysterious as the storm-tossed sea itself...