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DO THE RIGHT THING by Spike Lee with Lisa Jones (Fireside/Simon & Schuster: $10.95; 297 pp.)

“Lee’s isn’t the truth of objectivity and consensus--a journalist’s or sociologist’s truth. It is an artist’s truth, roiling with fruitful contradictions. A personal frame of reference like this would not seem startling in an Italian-American or WASP director, but to the great discredit of the American film biz, the black version is still a novelty.”

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