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...numb toil of an illiterate grandfather got the father a foothold and a high school education, and the son wound up in college or even law school. A woman who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in lower Manhattan had a niece who made it to the halcyon Bronx, and another generation on, the family went to Westchester County. So for millions of Americans, as they labored through the complexities of generations, work worked, and the immigrant work ethic came at last to merge with the Protestant work ethic...
Another approach is simply to provide better transportation, to get people out of the South Bronx into other areas of the city for their health care...It's a social problem. It has to do with how you deal with the problem of slums in this country. It seems to me that the medical profession by itself can't solve that one. That's a total community problem...
...best thing that can be said about Nighthawks is that it's short. Imagine Billy Dee Williams as Sergeant Fox and Sylvester Stallone as Sergeant DaSilva roaming the streets of the Bronx and combing Central Park, as decoy cops in a simpleminded parody of The Supercops and Serpico. We are to believe that the greatest service a policeman can do to stifle crime must be done while he wears a dress. As this dashing duo heroically traipses past Third Avenue, the scene shifts to London, where Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer). The Villian, has just blown up a department store. "There...
Operating off the Fordham University campus in Bronx, N.Y. for eight years. Bernal started a second club when he took over the reins at Harvard in September...
...problem is that we haven't seen any of those people trying to build something and that's the key to understanding Fort Apache's Quandary. For two hours the South Bronx's inhabitants have been presented as pimps, hookers, junkies, dealers, theives, and killers--all of them either Black or Puerto Rican. And American audiences will not see victims of an inhumane racist capitalist system--they will see looters and murderers who should be, in the view of this film, punished. When the neighborhood is in an uproar over random arrests, Murphy tells us that the community leaders will...