Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Midwinter, established him as a sensitive and forgiving spinner of sepia-colored tales that find the tenderness in men. His new book is more of a morality tale dressed as a murder mystery. Mr. White is a painfully shy salesclerk who photographs showgirls in his room; his alter ego, Wesley Horner, is an anguished cop with unsolved mysteries of his own. As dime-a-dance girls start showing up dead in St. Paul, Minn., in 1939, the men's paths intersect, and a story of guilt and innocence turns into a pulsing tale of redemption and original goodness, pitting...
...Stein, a senior researcher at the Wesley College Center for Research on Women, believes sexual violence and harassment is on the rise in schools, and she says, "It's happening between kids who are dating or want to be dating or used to date." Linda Osmundson, executive director of the Center Against Spouse Abuse in St. Petersburg, Fla., notes that "it seems to be coming down to younger and younger girls who feel that if they don't pair up with these guys, they'll have no position in their lives. They are pressured into lots of sexual activity...
BLADE (Aug. 28). Wesley Snipes--buff body and best menacing display of teeth since the early Kirk Douglas--saves the world from some hyperactive vampires. Action in the gaudy John Woo mode; can it find viewers beyond teenage boys...
Black sleuths aren't new. But from Chester Himes' Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins and Valerie Wilson Wesley's Tamara Hayle, they've usually dealt with gritty murders on streets where the living ain't easy. Thomas-Graham and Cuthbert share a different m.o. "There have been very few protagonists that we've seen who are young black women operating in rarefied environments intellectually," says Thomas-Graham...
...will be a cold day in hell before I willingly hand over my freedoms of labor, speech, religion and all that other stuff the Bill of Rights says to a government (of Johnsons and Branches) that thinks it knows what's best for me better than I do myself. WESLEY B. GILCHRIST '98 April...