Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publication next week, a selection of 350 Sheraton reviews in book form has sold out its first printing of 25,000 copies. Awkwardly titled Mimi Sheraton's The New York Times Guide to New York Restaurants, the $9.95 paperback is as diverse as the city, ranging from minuscule Chinatown dim-sum joints to the midtown cathedrals of continental cuisine...
Impressed by Murphy's chutzpah, the loner cop begins to open up, to the cultured convict, and they work as partners in some great car and subway chases through the streets of San Francisco. The photography, music, plot, characters all come together in Chinatown for the incredibly thrilling end. The Indian, the psychopath, Murphy and Nolte stalk each other by the eerie glow of the neon lights through the fog. The final explosive shots are in slow motion, and put 48 Hours on a par with Dirty Harry, White Lightning and The French Connection. With fast action, violence, urban realism...
...hopes to revive a program at the Boston legal Service which handles a number of major Chinatown issues legal and political mobilizations have both resulted from recent expansions in Chinatown by the Tufts University Medical School "Housing seems to be the really big legal issue," Yee says. According to Min, organizing against Tuffs has been difficult because the long work days of many Chinatown residents leaves them too exhausted for meetings and rallies...
Adrian Ho '83.4 tutors for a few hours each week at the Boston Chinese Youth Essential Service (YES), another Chinatown committee, which provides Chinatown youths with a place to meet study and receive educational and career counseling Ho, who used to tutor inmates at Walpole Prison through the PBH Prisons Committee, says working with the 13-to-19 year-olds at YES suits him better. "I didn't know if I was doing that much good [at Walpole]. Here I feel a little more effective...
...obstacle Ho encounters is the attitudes many of the teens have about schoolwork. "It's not considered cool to try and do well in school," he says. The negative peer pressure. Ho adds, can partly be blamed on the prevalence of street gangs in Chinatown New York Chinatown gangs send people to Boston every once in a while to organize" he says. "The environment's not too good for studying...