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Sanger wrote to Clarence Gamble, the head of the project, "The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members...
Grandeur is not a word you would think you would need in discussing the art of the late '90s in America, amid its tinkle of postmodernist styles and the chitchat of a depleted conceptualism. But in the presence of these new Serras, you have no choice but to use it--and to be glad that there's someone to whose work it can honestly apply...
Saul Williams is rarely at a loss for words. Aside from giving a vital voice to the newly revived spoken-word scene, the Slam star has talked nonstop about the movie at film festivals since it won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance last January. Nevertheless, the actor was nearly dumbstruck at Cannes, where the picture scored two more awards. As he walked with director Marc Levin, an elderly Frenchwoman approached him and started to cry. "It was amazing," recalls Levin. "She said she had been in the Resistance as a teenager and had already seen the movie twice because...
...first time Williams, 26, has moved an audience to tears. The son of a pastor and a teacher, he began acting in a third-grade production of Julius Caesar and knew he had found his calling. Two years later, he wrote his first poem, influenced by early "big word" rapper T La Rock. But it wasn't until grad school that he attempted to meld his dramatic training with spoken-word performances. Kicking around the improv poetry circuit in Manhattan, he met Levin and landed the main role in Levin's loosely scripted, no-budget feature about victims of unjust...
After 70,000 pages, it's hard to imagine that the office of the independent counsel has anything tantalizing left to deliver. But two weeks after his team dumped 18 boxes of evidence on the doorstep of Congress, Kenneth Starr quietly sent something else--a 44-word letter that has impeachment handicappers all over Capitol Hill buzzing. It is a plea to handle in confidence the investigative materials related to the President's alleged groping in the Oval Office of a volunteer and former Virginia campaign worker, Kathleen Willey. The letter was the first official indication from the independent counsel...