Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitter outskirts of Buenos Aires, thousands of people stand in line every morning, eyes glazed by hunger, clamoring for government handouts. The residents of most lower-class neighborhoods have had to fend for themselves. In the city's northern barrio of San Fernando, Ever Ponce, 30, and his brother Miguel, 37, work as shelf clerks in a supermarket and try to make ends meet with second jobs as painters at a private airport. Hard-pressed as they are, in recent months they helped organize a soup kitchen for their hunger-crazed neighbors, lining up donations of food from local companies...
...which the regional office administered. Last week HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided to move Puerto Rico operations out of the New York region, which would put them beyond D'Amato's reach. D'Amato also helped gain HUD financing for work in his hometown on Long Island, where his brother Armand, a lawyer, profited from the closings on house sales. Armand D'Amato also represented a company that won a HUD contract for a luxury resort rather than housing for the poor...
...close- knit, ascetic world of her family. Her parents fled China just before the Communist takeover in 1949 and eventually settled in Athens, Ohio, where her father, a ceramicist, taught for many years at Ohio University, and where her mother, a poet, still does. Her older brother, Tan, is also a poet. Lin's family in China, which included an architect and a famous lawyer who worked for progressive causes, has been described in Jonathan Spence's The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution...
...said she modeled it after a program started by her brother at the University of Pennsylvania...
Music is meant to sound warped when you're listening to that Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin or Beatles album that's 20 years old and used to belong to your older brother. Music is meant to sound like it's been places...