Word: chinatown
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...Most people think of Chinatown as a place to go to eat. They have no understanding of the way people live there." Charlotte Chen, a junior at Harvard, belongs to a small group of students here that have found more to do in Chinatown than eat at inexpensive restaurants...
...post-1965 influx of immigrants jammed the already crowded and inadequate housing and schools in Boston's Chinatown, one of the most densely populated areas of the city. Health care falls far below the needs of the people living there. For example, the tuberculosis rate is three times as great, and the infant mortality rate 2.5 times as great, as those of the entire metropolitan area. Many Chinese arrived unskilled, and most of those who had training couldn't use it to find a job because they lacked facility in English. Eighty-five percent of the adult population in Chinatown...
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...Running a major studio is more difficult than running a small country," Paramount Production Boss Robert Evans once observed. Now, after three failed marriages (including one to Actress Ali MacGraw) and a string of box office successes (Godfather I and II, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story), Evans is abdicating his Paramount throne. This week Evans, 44, begins anew as an independent producer under contract to Paramount, responsible for up to 24 new films over the next six years. Among his projects: a sequel to Chinatown and a remake of the 1946 classic, Notorious. Evans' decision to quit...
...than a cliche." For the first time in his career, he is on the brink of making big money and having new options. In his Beverly Hills hotel, his phone never stops ringing. He takes a call from Gleason. "What did you do last night?" "I went to see Chinatown," jokes Art. Then he smiles. His days of being anyone's second banana are over. Art Carney is a bankable actor...