Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Gershman argued that because the black leadership were preoccupied with a racial approach to the question of Black dispossession, it tended to ignore "the growing class divisions within the black community." He also argued that the Black bourgeoisie was inclined to use "racial myths" in an ideological manner to achieve racial entitlements from the society at the expense of the Black underclass...
This racial approach, Mr. Gershman concluded, "has benefited those (blacks) least in need and has perpetuated the dependency of the (black) underclass." Because of this failure, the Black leadership has lost "credibility in the eyes of many Americans...
...wanders off on pointless tangents. A subplot involving Delaney's critically ill wife (Faye Dunaway) is never integrated into the manhunt story, and Dunaway is wasted in a role that keeps her flat on her back. Mostly, she is forgotten as the gumshoe and the hobnail boots approach each other for the climactic confrontation. But Delaney is never in real danger: when Blank is finally cornered, he starts to cry. The resourceful villain becomes a whining victim. The dark alley, which promised delicious thrills, is a narrative dead...
...soared-but never stomped-across the footlights. There was no phony mystique, no overlay of artistic "temperament" in a world notorious for imperious egos. Sills onstage was indistinguishable from Sills in life: a keenly intelligent, shrewd, ebullient woman (her nickname is Bubbles) who has taken a stable, no-nonsense approach to one of the century's major singing careers...
...vast admiration for R & B luminaries like Marvin Gaye and Sam and Dave as well as tunesmiths like Burt Bachrach, says, "I like to write hits. My biggest reason for writing a song is to have it on the radio. It's kind of a Tin Pan Alley approach...