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Essay Archive - A Senator's Pain
A Senator's Pain
Most Californians know exactly what they were doing when the historical
were read that acquitted the four LAPD officers, and sparked the civil unrest in
Los Angeles. Anna Deavere Smith does an excellent job representing Los Angeles
citizens in her theatrical piece entitled Twilight: Los Angeles 1992. Smith
writes, "Every person I include in the book, and who I perform, has a presence
that is much more important than the information they give" (Smith: xxiv). In
this statement Smith tells the reader that the facts each character gives is not
as important as his her presence, because anyone can give facts about a....
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