Came to the bookstore and read to the avid interest of the black people assembled there about his chronicle of the upper middle class black people he wanted the world to know about.

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In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.

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Mr. Byrd estimates that New York audiences for his "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" were 70% to 80% African-American, slightly better than the turnout for "Stick Fly, " the chronicle of an affluent black family during a complicated weekend on Martha's Vineyard.

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"The Woman in Black" earned a lackluster "B-" CinemaScore grade, but, like "Chronicle, " the film has already proved itself a major success.

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