Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There appears to be no real explanation for the state's unusually slow service, other than the fact that 90 percent of the P&L workers are women from around East Boston's Chinatown area, most of whom have difficulties speaking English. The district is already weak in its political representation. It's easy to see how the prospect of 500 unemployed and angry Asian women might not threaten or pressure state officials at the Division of Employment Security (DES) into action...
...insufficiency of long-term ESL services currently available is a wider community problem in Chinatown. Hundreds of individuals are waiting to enroll in limited ESL classes, and the overwhelming demand often forces agencies to turn away those unable to meet minimum proficiency requirements--the people who need the classes the most...
Painters, sculpters, playwrights, and puppeteers will be displaying their work in the Central Square, Park Street, Kendall Square, Washington Street, Street, and Essex (Chinatown) stations...
...light. That experience was easier to achieve when movie theaters were huge, gaudy palaces with plush appointments and ushers dressed like Ruritanian footmen. Alas, those theaters have been razed or, worse, sliced into half-a-dozen small auditoriums that are about as attractive as the men's rooms in Chinatown restaurants. Why should anyone over 18, or not on a date, go to a noisy, rowdy theater with poor projection and get glop on his shoes when a few months later he can rent the same movie--or any other movie--and see it whenever he wants at home? Paramount...
...Detective Sargeant Stanley White (Rourke), a Vietnam Vet-turned policeman propelled by a Ramboesque obsession with the American military failure in Southeast Asia and a steely determination to flush out the undesirable element from what he regards as a cesspool of Sino-American corruption--New York City's Chinatown...