Word: derelict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City officials, who have been managing to tear down only about 250 derelict structures a month, initially cast a blind eye on the copycat barn razings that followed. Events took on the atmosphere of a block party in some neighborhoods. But then a scuffle broke out on Chatham Street, after house busters blocked the road with debris from the makeshift crack house and brothel they tore down. The Motor City demolition derby has now resulted in five arrests for wrecking without a permit -- and a healthy increase in the number of houses the city is clearing away...
...bowling; in American, they converge on a twelve-lane bowling alley. And in Western, the roads are lined with pigs, while in American, they are crowded with Jeep Cherokees. Although the 76 square miles of American land is clearly more affluent, it is also, in a curious way, more derelict. "You'll notice that the ceremonies in Western Samoa are much more relaxed," says John Enright, American Samoa's Folk Arts Coordinator. "Over here they're more uptight. There's always a fear that they're losing their traditions, or that they won't get things quite right. I think...
...depict the old. Mostly, the shooting proceeded without incident. Sometimes, though, old images must have haunted the older townsfolk. One day Colesberry spotted one of the crew's pickup trucks toting a huge Klan cross through town and had the driver cover it up. During the ten-week shoot, derelict churches and other structures were set ablaze; production paused while the ashes cooled down. One evening the company assembled to film the burning of a local black church, which had been bought and would be rebuilt to the congregation's specifications. "It was freezing that night," recalls Bob Penny...
...Danish rolls into customers' bags." Greenberg was then teaching sixth grade in a Brooklyn public school, and the following year, despite his modest salary, he bought 72 pairs of woolen gloves, took them to the Bowery, and handed them out (very timidly, he admits) to the destitute and the derelict. Why 72? Because 18 is the Hebrew symbol for life, and "four times life...
...condition of the homeless is appalling, solutions can seem hopelessly complex. Offering the medical treatment necessary for a derelict alcoholic is different from providing job training and education for a welfare mother, counseling for a teenage runaway or more income for a worker trying to secure an apartment. Yet no matter what their other difficulties, the homeless share a simple problem: they need a place to live. The best response to homelessness is to build more housing. This wealthy nation should start with a basic policy: no American should have to sleep on the street...