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...network outfit you could name - except Microsoft, which hit a 52-week low on some foul earnings rumors - was movin' on up after Gateway, PMC Sierra, and Juniper Networks all posted reassuring earnings in a day full of happy news. (Even Abby Joseph Cohen, Wall Street's kindly aunt, pitched in with a declaration that the S&P 500 is 15 percent undervalued...
...ethical or aesthetic standards on TV. Aided by his skeptical, ambitious assistant (Jada Pinkett Smith), he hires as his stars a homeless tap dancer (Savion Glover) and his pal (Tommy Davidson). Renamed Mantan and Sleep 'n Eat, they are given a supporting cast of Topsy, Rastus, Sambo and Aunt Jemima--enough reminders of racism to spur protests from an enraged citizenry. Guess what? The show is a smash. Audience members show up in blackface. The unknowns become stars. America loves Mantan...
When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tin-lined house in Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were escorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, but it wasn't loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an Aboriginal child more like them. It didn't work...
Burton, wearing a baseball cap and khakis, was going to visit his aunt. He had grown up in Las Vegas and had been a popular wrestler in high school. He had earned an award for helping elderly people. The night before, he and his mother Janet had watched a TV special about air crashes. He mentioned the show to his mother on the drive to the airport but seemed fine, she says, when she kissed him goodbye at the gate...
...second Roosevelt in the White House receives similar treatment in The Golden Age. As the novel opens in 1940, F.D.R. is shown secretly maneuvering the country toward a war in Europe that the people would, if consulted, totally reject. Sanford's Aunt Caroline, a major character in Empire and Hollywood, is a friend of the Roosevelts and a frequent guest at the White House. She is charmed by the President but also chilled by what she sees as his inexhaustible deviousness. "There is a curse on power," she blurts out to the First Lady. Mrs. Roosevelt replies, "Not when used...