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...movie brings homelessness home by presenting it not as a cause for charity but as a recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic...
...never got together and said we were going to be good role models," says Donnie. "When we say no to drugs, it's from seeing people around us using them." The Kids all hail from Dorchester, a blue-collar section of Boston where the street action can run pretty heavy. Maurice Starr, 35, the drummer and producing whiz who put the Kids together in 1985, comes from neighboring Roxbury, where the streets are definitively mean. He has produced all the Kids' records, writes much of their material and commands the instrument work ("All instruments played or programmed by Maurice Starr...
...change in the appearance and style of some of Seattle's suburbs. With that has come a tendency to tar California with guilt by association -- for damage to the environment, for fast-talking wheeling and dealing, and for the drug trafficking among offshoots of Los Angeles gangs in the blue-collar districts of Tacoma. California has also become a political buzz word. "Any candidate can get a rise out of his audience just by mentioning the bugaboo of 'Los Angelization,' " says Doug Jewett, one of the contenders in this week's mayoral election. One successful antigrowth candidate used the slogan...
Professors, librarians, clerical workers, blue-collar workers and police at UMass already have union representation, but the group of about 1200 professionals, which include technicians, managers lawyers, nurses and architects, has been difficult to organize in the past, said Tom Sharpe, a SEIU spokesperson...
...more complex problems like immigration and housing. Back home, he makes sure constituents get help from 18 staffers who track down Social Security checks and Medicaid benefits. Though he freely disclosed in 1987 that he was a homosexual, his district, which encompasses the liberal campuses of Boston and nearby blue-collar mill towns, re-elected him overwhelmingly in 1988 with 70% of the vote...