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History is made by the famous, but it is endured by the anonymous--ordinary men and women who see themselves as victims of malign forces. That is the guiding principle of much populist scholarship, and it defines the approach taken by J. Anthony Lukas, a Pulitzer-prizewinning former New York...
That social goal was achieved at the cost of great disruption: the inner-city whites, many of Irish or Italian descent, resented what they viewed as upper- class suburban values imposed on them. Black children were unprepared for the surge in hostility, and the schools were turned into fortresses. As...
These stories are more than ten years old, but in Lukas' hands they still have the power to move. No reader, no matter what his political or social views, can fail to be affected by the Irish Catholic family, declining into an acrimony that leaves all of its members diminished...
Shortly after the picture begins, it depicts a brutal murder in the Philadelphia train station. The crime is witnessed by an Amish boy (Lukas Haas) who is traveling with his newly widowed mother (Kelly McGillis). Ford plays John Book, the Philadelphia detective who investigates, only to discover, with the boy...
Yet it is precisely the business of Witness, which is one of the most originally conceived and gracefully made suspense dramas of recent years, to work into edgy juxtaposition the representatives of two subcultures that are ordinarily mutually exclusive. Those dark figures in the fields are Amish, members of the...