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Friday, August 10, 2012

249. Polemical


Excerpt from, "The Two Halves of a Neighborhood's Soul Bared for All to See," by Stephen Holden, The New York Times, 8/9/12:


Spike Lee's messy, meandering, bluntly polemical "Red Hook Summer" has one crucial ingredient: a new vitality.  This celebration of African-American resilience in a struggling New York neighborhood envisions two cultures coexisting uneasily in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. It is on the side of hope.


Polemical: of or involving dispute or controversy
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