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...cultural predictions after 9/11, the first proved the wrongest: that grief and war would moderate our culture and elide our differences. Movies would stop blowing up buildings; reality shows would stop humiliating people; comedians would stop being ironic. Atlantic Monthly editor Michael Kelly envisioned a day when American men would again be able to wear fedora hats without smirking. It was a fleeting moment for cultural critics who, like The Great Gatsby's Nick Carraway, longed to see the world "in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever...
...BREEZY POP NOVEL WAITING TO EXHALE (Viking; $22) is one more battle communique in the war between the sexes, notable chiefly because all the condo-owning, Z-car-driving protagonists are black. True, these four good- looking, thirtyish women friends and the men who do them wrong, wronger and wrongest are the whitest black people ever seen off the set of The Cosby Show. This is high-class soap opera, and the big, unstated joke is that the soap is Ivory. That may be why Pocket Books just bid $2.64 million for paperback rights. The subliminal pitch, a home truth...
...home, Barkley noticed a crowd beginning to stampede, followed by a surging blue line of helmeted, jump-suited riot police. He tried to leave, but a young cop raised his truncheon to strike him. "Son, if you touch me with that," Barkley warned him, "you've touched the wrongest man in Palo Alto...
There followed a dozen hours of official indifference and indignity-including an apparent slowdown by deputies in booking the detainees, who were kept 80 to a cell. It was not until late in the afternoon that the wrongest man in Palo Alto was finally mugshot, fingerprinted and given a summons to appear in court this week on a charge of "rioting." Barkley and a number of fellow straight defendants say they may sue for false arrest. Among them are Namon J. Nichols, a 31-year-old electrical engineer, and Stanford University Professor William R. Kincheloe, 44. They joined Barkley...
...They are as human, as noble, as anyone else. Satan goes through more intense emotional crises even than the deserted sweetheart of Sorrows. A true union of Angel and Man, he epitomizes the ideality present in the moral experience of all the characters, an ideality extending even through their wrongest acts...