Word: boarders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adoption agencies of most states. Yet while there may be dozens of couples bidding for every healthy white infant, only about one-third of the approximately 36,000 available special-needs kids will be taken in any given year. Some of the rest can be found in hospitals as "boarder babies" -- left behind at birth by addicted or otherwise incapable mothers. Others are crammed into group facilities...
...cropped up in Berkeley, where residents banded together to keep out a drop-in center for the emotionally disturbed. The acronym stands for "not in my backyard," and it symbolizes a perverse form of antisocial activism. "Everybody says, 'Take care of the homeless, take care of the boarder babies,' " says New York City Mayor Edward Koch. "But when you need a facility, they say, 'Not in my backyard...
While enjoying the ogles of Madge. Millie and their boarder Rosemary Sydney (Martha Redding), he runs into estranged best friend Alan Seymour (Jeremy Miller)--who just happens to live in the town. The two engage in a mock battle that is at first painful to watch but is ultimately just ridiculous...
...when he was taken captive by Joe Turner -- an actual figure who tricked blacks into servitude long after emancipation. Despite this historical reference, Joe Turner works by intuition more than logic. At the end, when Loomis seems pathetically shorn of his consuming purpose, Ed Hall, as the most spiritual boarder, perceives in him instead the "shiny man" of a folkloric religious vision. In that moment, spectators too find themselves transported from pity to admiration: Loomis has transformed his pointless suffering into an ennobling search for life's meaning...
ALSO IN THE HOUSE is Moe Axelrod, the boarder, a small time drifter laden with a heart of coal. His leg was shot off in the Great War, and he is as bitter as we expect him to be: he clumps about the apartment in his double-breasted pinstripe suit and porkpie hat, spouting off a ridiculous agglomeration of cynical street idiom: "You ain't sunburned. You hoid...