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Then there's Paul Newman's classic Fort Apache, the Bronx. Newman, the aging cop, had to ward off a slew of crime-hungry Puerto Ricans. Commit crimes--that's what Latin Americans like to do, the audience must conclude...
...recognition of the impact of structural constraints and opportunities on the life chances of the underclass opens up a slew of public policy alternatives. Wilson states in his preface that a major goal of The Truly Disadvantaged is precisely to spell out some of these public policy alternatives...
...explains his notion of textual lightness, for example, with the story of how Perseus slew the Medusa. In Calvino's allegory, the Medusa, whose gaze turns men to stone, freezes language with paralyzing weight. Perseus destroys the Medusa with lightness: he flies above her, and he only looks at her indirectly, in the mirror of his shield. Indirection and change are as important to Calvino's lightness as the subtraction of weight...
...addition to a slew of new players, the squad returns several key veterans which gives the squad such bright optimism...
...much faith, either in a Constitution which could allow such deeds to go unpunished, or in a citizenry which could allow such deeds to be repeated. As slowly as the wheels of justice may turn, turn they must. the indictments are long overdue. And if they result in a slew of convictions, who is a president to say otherwise...