Word: behr
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...told, occasionally fascinating anecdotes about the perplexed, confused and frequently angry ways blacks and whites (as well as a few Asian Americans and Hispanics) talk--or more often don't talk--to one another about racial matters, what have you really learned? Mainly, in the words of Soma Golden Behr, one of the editors who supervised the project, that when it comes to race, Americans "have done some of the easy things and now we're in for the hard stuff." That's worth repeating but not exactly news to anyone who has been paying attention to the issue...
...Behr's partner, deputy managing editor Gerald Boyd, explained to me last week, the Times set out to examine the uneasy relationships between minorities (mostly blacks) and whites who relate to each other as equals, a goal it accomplished brilliantly. But that approach by definition excludes an examination of how powerful white institutions, such as banks and insurance companies, influence the way race is lived by redlining ghettos and charging blacks more for their burial policies. It also precludes looking at how race is lived by those who seldom come into contact with peers of a different group, like affluent...
...triumph of Roswell is that it takes what sounds like an SNL skit--teen UFO-crash survivors in New Mexico--and plays it straight, with an eerie, noir beauty and stately pacing rare on today's chatty dramas. (Few series do pauses better than Roswell, thanks largely to Jason Behr, who plays alien Max like a junior Duchovny...