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...fact, the last surviving member -- ''the Kid," they called her then -- of a group of formidably gifted black writers of the late '20s and early '30s, the period of the Harlem Renaissance. This flare of talent included poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens, fresh out of Girls' Latin School in Boston, West tied for second with Hurston in a short-story contest. After that, Hurston and the older black writers took her into their world as prodigy and mascot...
...this network is so sophisticated that the Bosnian Serbs probably knew which American pilots were flying when they shot down O'Grady on June 2. The Bosnian Serb antiaircraft batteries, whose communications U.S. intelligence has been monitoring, may have intentionally targeted O'Grady and his wingman, Captain Bob Wright, because the two had taken part in NATO air attacks on Bosnian Serb military targets. "They knew who Basher 51 and Basher 52 were," says a Pentagon official, referring to the call signs for O'Grady and Wright. "We think they specifically wanted to take these planes...
Andrew L. Wright '96 is president of The Crimson...
...pilot's worst nightmare, it is said, is not getting shot out of the sky but seeing one's wingman getting shot out of the sky. "When you lose your wingman, part of you goes with him," said Wright, recalling the moment he saw O'Grady's plane cut to pieces by the sam. "It was pretty much a fireball, but out of the fireball, I could see the cockpit." Wright had to suppress his horror in order to concentrate on marking O'Grady's position. The plane plunged into the clouds so swiftly, however, that Wright could not tell...
...icon in a film about painter Jean Michel Basquiat, a Warhol protaga. And what an art-ridden affair it is. The film was written and is being directed by painter Julian Schnabel. Art collector DENNIS HOPPER plays collector-dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who marketed Basquiat to the world. Only Jeffrey Wright, who plays Basquiat, has no art-world ties. "This is the first nondocumentary film about an American artist," says Hopper, who owns paintings by both Basquiat and Schnabel. "It's important, and it's going to be a breakthrough...