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Aside from inherent offensiveness, the column has a real knack for stumbling on the Obliquely Offensive Reference (OOR). For example, most of the responsible media in New York have long trumpeted the tragic plight of shopping bag ladies--women who live on the street, carrying their few possessions in tattered bags. Nemy not long ago got in a classic OOR with her column about her own shopping bag ladies--the women who after a tough day at Bloomingdale's must maneuver through the streets and into their taxicab overburdened with purchases. The gist of the column was a breathless admiration...
...film with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Four other films are touted as hot Oscar contenders: The Verdict, in which Paul Newman plays a burnt-out Boston lawyer; Frances, a Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine; and Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi. These four films will be released for selective engagements in a few cities in the hope of garnering media attention and year-end critics' awards. But there will be less time and space available for serious pictures in competition with the inevitable...
Last New Year's Eve. the national and local news reported the death of a New Jersey Angel named Frank Melvin, a 26-year-old Black man. In a tragic incident, Melvin and a group of Angels arrived at the scene of a burglary at the same time as two Newark policemen. One officer was on the roof of the burglarized building when he saw Melvin below, running toward his partner; he misinterpreted the Angel's intentions as threatening, shouted warnings, and then fired one shot through Melvin's chest. In truth, Melvin had tried to unzip his jacket...
...dismayed at your pessimism over the future of Solidarity [Oct. 25]. Although the Polish parliament has officially destroyed the independent trade union, the Polish people have undergone too much anguish in their tragic past to abandon their cries for freedom. Even if General Wojciech Jaruzelski has been successful in banning Solidarity, the dream of independence will reshape itself and continue...
...Poet Judith Thurman makes clear in her scrupulous and elegant biography, the baroness also suffered tribulations that force weaker souls to despair or madness. "All sorrows can be borne," she declared, "if you put them into a story," and most of her 77 years were spent transmuting the tragic into the anecdotal...