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...stardom to his tragic fall into addiction, obscurity, and an early grave. The film struggles, but ultimately succeeds brilliantly in weaving together the strands of a life torn asunder, and, even to the luxurious sounds of Baker’s own music, it is difficult to do anything but recoil at the portrait that Weber paints.As much as Baker’s music reveals about his natural ability and seraphic voice, it’s the photographs that tell the most about his success and decline. The film opens as a photographer sorts through stills of Baker in the studio...
...side of the pond about forcing individuals into any sort of public conformity. In a country where a single religion, Christianity, is overwhelmingly dominant, and where governments dabble in “faith-based initiatives” to make political hay, it’s understandable that one would recoil at policies meant to subdue difference. What would become of the United States, after all, if the apparatus of the state, controlled by the “Christian right,” were endowed with the power to quash any form of religious expression? In conventional American wisdom, the road...
...given rise to a pernicious moral equivalency—exhibited most recently in S. Allen Counter’s comparison of the tactics of the South African apartheid regime to the Harvard University Police Department’s. A meaningfully “international” community would recoil instinctively from such a plainly ignorant distortion—one that imputes the reputation of a murderous regime to police officers who had merely asked students for their IDs, quickly learned that their gathering was legitimate, and let the merriment continue unabated. The comparison is no more intelligent, and every...
...racial and ethnic groups. He has consistently promoted the idea that whites, blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans can unite in pursuit of common goals. He maintains that if political speeches are tailored solely to white audiences, people of color will draw back, just as whites often recoil when speeches are targeted to racial minority audiences...
...recoil from the notion that a scientific sampling of the American people, too, can lie. But how can we know for sure? What if a pollster were to ask me, "Do you think people tell pollsters what they want to hear?" Having heard the news, I would have to say, "Yes." Which would not be what the pollster would want to hear...