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...grueling life for William Gates and Arthur Agee; they can make poetry of a jump shot, but to them algebra looks like Chinese. At school they are hired guns, set apart by their race and their athletic gift. And when they get on the court, thrill and fear pump through their veins like high-grade heroin. In class you can get a B or a C; in basketball you get an A or an F -- win or lose, period -- and everyone's watching. These kids must perform under pressures that would break most adults. "It became more...
...Arthur soon slips that noose, but at a hefty price. When tuition is raised at St. Joseph, he transfers to local Marshall High, where he becomes a star player. But until his parents pay St. Joseph what they owe, the school refuses to release Arthur's records, thus threatening him with loss of a full school year. By then his dad has left home, done drugs and jail time; his mom has to hold things together in the dark (literally -- the electricity's been turned off). But she, the film's heroine, does it; then she gets the top grade...
...they explode with a bang. To give credence to such ideas -- even when doing so with loud sighs of alas! -- is to resume some of the most poisonous battles of the late 1960s and '70s, when the sometimes cranky outer limits of the IQ debate were personified by Arthur Jensen, the Berkeley psychologist who stressed the link between race, genes and IQ, and William Shockley, who proposed paying people with low IQs to be sterilized. Murray says the reaction against them shut off a necessary discussion. "The country has for a long time been in almost hysterical denial that genes...
...DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...
...DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...