Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State Rep. Melvin H. King made stops at downtown housing projects for the elderly and in Chinatown yesterday before spending the better part of the afternoon in his State House office...
MALICE AND AMBITION do not adhere to Alan Alda's face. Alda the screenwriter forgot that Alda the actor looks like a waiter in Chinatown begging for a big tip--his squinting, ever-genial countenance belies the selfish, insatiable drive that defines his hero, Senator-on-the-make Joe Tynan. The words of the screenplay may fit, but Alda can't take up the Nice Man's Burden: Hawkeye can't play Macbeth...
...warns them mysteriously not to take pictures from the window. "Is Harlem better or worse than you expected?" he asks. "Better!" Later the visitors disperse to collect impressions of Manhattan on their own. Marc Horber, a kitchenware manufacturers' representative from Nancy, and his son Eric, 17, walk through Chinatown and Little Italy. Father finds the city "a grand has-been," but to his son, "It is very different from France, everyone living in his own territory, very dirty, but full of life...
...only he had been content to write history instead of fiction. For the book is not so much imagined as documented. Plot developments, like Singapore rickshas, serve to convey the reader from one exhibit to another. On your right are the rubber industry warehouses, repositories of greed; ahead is Chinatown; up the hill is Tanglin the English colony's surrogate Surrey...
...Among the fired-up who have been accepted are ten whites, six blacks, twelve Hispanics and, just lately, 20 Chinese-after the Magnificent 13 was written up in Chinese newspapers. Before taking any of them, Sliwa had to hold consultations with the Ghost Shadows, the most powerful gang in Chinatown, explaining he was not out to control turf, just police the subways...