Word: berkeley
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...call is for a movie that many of the auditioners in line view as an anthem to their lives: A Chorus Line, a film version of the Pulitzer-prizewinning musical play that last year became the longest-running show in Broadway history. A sort of downbeat reworking of Busby Berkeley's 1933 movie 42nd Street, in which a member of the ensemble suddenly becomes a star, Chorus Line depicts the ruthless process of casting a Broadway musical; it evolved from the actual experiences of its first performers. Although even weeknight tickets to the show cost as much...
...work on metallic hydrogen while at the University of Amsterdam, where he taught for 11 years until 1982, when he joined the Harvard faculty. He has also worked at the Roskwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He received his degree from the University of California at Berkeley...
...Joseph takes advantage of none of these benefits, with the exception of the free bin. He sleeps in an abandoned house or in the Berkeley hills, and he doesn't get sick. And, of course, Joseph has to eat. One night I asked him where he ate if he didn't eat at the food project meal. Some of the more genteel street people prefer "scarfing" or "vulching" (an invented verb form of "vulture"), which consists of waiting inconspicuously in a restaurant until a customer finishes and then beating the busboy to the plates of leftovers. But this method doesn...
...hungry people on an individual level all too often leads to a callous unwillingness to deal with them at all. Like this country's president, most of the public seems to hope that the homeless will simply go away, taking their plight with them. At the pizza place in Berkeley, the student clientele greeted the crowd around the trashcan with derisive yells of "Eeeeeuw, gross," and the employees often threw sawdust on the pizza before disposing of it--as if the crowd was trying to save money by waiting for the food to come out for free. But the same...
...prospect of a future in the job market or in a house seems ludicrous after they've been outside for long enough. The hungry will not go away; all the same, they have somehow been disenfranchised. Their straits will be eased by small, local organizations such as those in Berkeley, but without major policy changes--or perhaps even structural changes--in state governments and in Washington, their numbers will continue to grow...