The Empire State Building’s Halloween

"For contemporary Afro-American professionals and intellectuals, the Harlem of legend is at best a Utopian cultural myth"

“The Stones hired us to act as security for $500 worth of beer. That Mick Jagger, he used us for dupes.”

Nixon, a buttoned-down Quaker, was the antithesis of the counterculture that most of the albums trumpeted

“I guess she was per­fect for him — they could beat each other up every night and nobody’d mind. They had real fights.”

“At the center of the criticism is the chief artic­ulator of Bush’s imperial presidency,” we reported in 1992, “the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad.”

“Don’t wait for a critical consensus to form around a film before you deign to see it. Rush off on your own, and maybe you can start your own cult.”