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...works of beauty unrivaled by most contemporary--and many canonical--writers. They have created literary masterpieces that poignantly depict female adolescents coping with their burgeoning sexuality and racial identity. But for the West Chester school board, each writer's challenging of race and gender stereotypes seems to strike a raw nerve...
...such highbrow language hardly captures the raw reality of Judge Ito's courtroom last week, where each day brought a new spike in the players' emotional temperatures--and further discomfited the millions of TV viewers who thought they knew what to think about O.J. Over kitchen tables, in restaurants, around office coffee machines, people debated the lawyers' opening statements, critiqued Judge Ito's style, expressed amazement over snapshots of Simpson's body offered up by the defense and photos of Simpson's socks displayed by the prosecution...
Lake and her top producers declined to talk with Time, but other hosts eagerly defend the genre. "The closer you get on live, unscripted TV to reality and its raw emotions," says Springer, "the rougher it's going to be . Maybe our show can help people learn to tolerate differences. And maybe we can learn that everybody is capable of pain." Phil Donahue, a 27-year veteran of the talk-show wars, doesn't want to bash the Ricki influence either (even though it has contributed to a decline in his ratings). "I do think there's an awful...
...Margaret Bourke-White at the Hoover Dam, they saw hieroglyphs of power; so, moving through Manhattan, did Kline. The graininess and stark contrast of Robert Frank's photos in the '50s belong, as Anfam points out, to the same take on America as Kline's paintings -- a place of raw visual possibility, of collision of opposites and continuous flight...
...Jiang, 68, has amassed nine major titles in the party, government and military. But monikers do not mean much in Chinese politics; during his retirement, the only title buttressing Deng's pervasive influence has been his honorary chairmanship of the China Bridge Association. What does matter is the raw calculus of power, a dynamic that can be as fickle as it is brutal. Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic has had no fewer than six heirs apparent, not one of whom held that position for more than five years. Deng's earlier choices for succession, Party Secretary...