Word: chinatown
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GARMENT INDUSTRY. Throughout New York City, the center of American garment manufacturing, the kind of horrid sweatshop common in the early 1900s is flourishing anew. In Chinatown lofts, Queens garages and South Bronx storefronts, workers toil from dawn until well past dark sewing pants, shirts and blouses for as little as 8? apiece. The rooms are often dimly lit and poorly ventilated. In many cases, huge rolls of cloth block fire exits. The workers range from the young to the very old. In a raid on Chinatown sweatshops last spring, federal investigators found one 90-year-old woman...
...garment industry and its sweatshops have spread over the years beyond New York. In Los Angeles, inspectors have uncovered more than 2,000 illegal workplaces using Hispanic labor. So many garment shops have popped up in Miami that one industry executive calls it "the Chinatown of the South...
...from flaming orange to blacks and whites as the lovers' passion turns to calculation. There is density in the plot construction, a maze that Ned must negotiate to save his life; Body Heat has more narrative drive, character congestion and sense of place than any original screenplay since Chinatown; yet it leaves room for some splendid young actors to breathe, to collaborate 5 in creating the film's texture...
Goldstein, who also sold the small handguns that were used in a series of gang shootings in New York City's Chinatown in 1978, has been shaken by events, however, and now says he is considering getting out of the gun business...
Even worse, the passions which drove noir seem almost charming today. When Roman Polanski made the mock-noir Chinatown, he had to slice open Nicholson's nostril to get the same effect that was once accomplished by showing a couple of thugs lurking outside the window. Leave it to the Reader's Digest to mourn our passing national innocence--but the real problem is we've lost our faith in passion. Murder and passion seem almost antithetical at the present, and adultery--well, adultery is for adolescents...