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...thesis focuses on several essays and a novel, Another Country, that Baldwin wrote after returning to the United States from Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. The thesis examines what it means to be American in the context of Baldwin's personal tensions about national identity...
...However, Driskell says the reporter took her quotes out of context, and she attributes other motives to the impeachment attempt...
...Driskell maintained her comments were taken out of context and that the impeachment was politically, not racially, motivated...
...called Dr. Donna Benton, a gerontologist at the University of Southern California (no, Mom, I did not say anything about your slippery new bathroom tile, which, if it did come up, was mentioned only in the context of nonskid tub strips), and described how I had broached the subject...
Increasingly, though, we go to Jackie Chan movies not for the star's good moves but for his good nature. He's the kind of guy you could ruin with slickness and overmounting, the sort of performer who flourishes in the hip-casual context that screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have provided him here. Everyone's having a good time, but they're not winking at us either--making us parties to their in-jokes. As a result, we have a swell time...