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...years later, the installation and preservation of quotas are apparently top priorities for prominent civil rights leaders like Benjamin Hookes, executive director of the NAACP. When Wards Cove was handed down, Hookes threatened "civil disobedience, on a scale that has never been seen in this country" if it and other decisions were not reversed. "Racism," he declared, "is the most important problem facing Black America...
Every bit as remarkable as the largeness of vision is the intimacy of scale with which director and co-author James Lapine has staged it. Lapine, who collaborated with composer Stephen Sondheim on the intricate musicals Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods, here limits himself to a few chairs, a doorway, two beds, a white curtain and a handful of props. The result is as magical as the computer-generated wizardry of a Les Miserables or Phantom of the Opera. The action shifts fluidly from reality to fantasy, from confessional thought to naturalistic dialogue, from poignance...
Pelli still gets thank-yous from strangers about his MOMA renovation and notes from Minneapolis praising his Norwest Center. Ordinary people instinctively understand his talent. Remarkably, his very big buildings are thoughtful, likable, rich in detail, humane. "If the architecture is very good," he says, "huge scale can be a vehicle for doing an exceptional building." Coming from almost anyone else, that would be disingenuous tripe. When Pelli delivers platitudes about making cities better -- "In a good city every building should be a gift" -- one tends to accept the earnestness. His work has earned...
Roughly 10% of the correspondents, however, were furious with Milken for his confessed criminal activities, which included the manipulation of securities prices. John Weigel, a financial consultant in Costa Mesa, Calif., called Milken "merely a financial extortionist on a Capone-esque scale that demands punishment on a similar scale." Concurred Miami attorney J.B. Spence: "It will be incredibly disheartening to the American public if the sentence is a mere slap on the wrist...
Clay finds that the ruthlessness of Bicker is not meant to shape character, but to test it. Only those who possess the perfect graces of class and charm can successfully scale the ivied walls of discrimination...