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...jure language of the United States from those language minorities who want their legitimate share in the heritage and composition of American society, the issue goes far beyond that. Many people fear that making English the official U.S. language is but one item in a hidden agenda by Anglo supremacist groups to annihilate the cultural identity of various ethnic groups that comprise American society...
DIED. E. DIGBY BALTZELL, 80, sociologist who, in his studies of American Protestantism, popularized the acronym wasp for his fellow white Anglo-Saxon Protestants; in Boston...
...case, solving this long-ago crime is more pretext than text in this movie. For the silence of that grave symbolizes a larger and more conspiratorial silence afflicting Frontera. This had its uses at one time, especially as a way of muffling differences between its black, Hispanic and Anglo communities. But Sayles wants us to count the costs of silence too--in the baleful distortions it imposes on the people who keep it, in the damage it eventually does to innocents like Sam and Pilar when they are not let in on the secrets it shrouds. Above all, he wants...
McGregor, who calls himself "slightly arrogant and desperately sincere," last year married French production designer Eve Mouvrakis (they had a daughter this February) and is happy as the darling of the Anglo film circuit. "I won't buy into the Hollywood thing," he insists. "I want to be in good movies." It should be fun watching the battle between a charismatic young actor and U.S. moguls in search of a star...
...Solving this long-ago crime is more pretext than text in this movie, says Schickel. For the silence of that grave symbolizes a larger and more conspiratorial silence afflicting Frontera. This had its uses at one time, especially as a way of muffling differences between its black, Hispanic and Anglo communities. Sayles wants us to understand that when we deny history we grant it a more disruptive power...