Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Washington Mayor Marion Barry handed a golden key to Kimi Gray last week, an unprecedented transaction was at hand: tenants of a once run-down public- housing complex were about to buy the property. Gray had been fighting for this moment since 1981, when she decided that the Kenilworth projects' 464 apartments needed tenant management. Gray organized and inspired the tenants, got them to keep their kids in school and hunt for jobs. By 1986, rent receipts were up 77%; Gray says welfare dependency, once as high as 85%, is down...
Unlike in many films, the human relationships here are complex and multi-faceted. Anna and Leo are in love, but there is more to it than sex and holding hands. There are also misunderstandings, anger, frustration and sometimes doubt. At one point, Leo criticizes Anna's attitude toward her life, saying she is not passionate about anything in the way he is about his sculpture. In defensive anger, she rails against him, crying that she doesn't need to be criticized "by someone as lucky as you are. Especially from someone as lucky as you, with the good fortune...
Until the rent control board makes a fresh decision, development cannot proceed on that part of the site, which is slated to house a hotel complex...
...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
...Palestinians; the referendum does not challenge this policy. It only seeks to hold Israel to the same human rights standards applied to South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Central America. The most frustrating excuse that opposition to Question 5 has invented is that the situation is far too complex to be addressed in a referendum. This is, of course, a not-so-subtle attempt at preserving the status...