Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SPEED OF DARKNESS. Playwright Steve Tesich brings together two former Army buddies and trash-haulage partners in this haunting Broadway production, one (Stephen Lang) now scruffy and homeless, the other (Len Cariou) now South Dakota's man of the year. Ironically, the dropout is at peace; the man who suppressed his dark secrets to fit in exists on the knife edge of anger...
...events but on the sociological shifts that the decade engendered. The people interviewed are, for the most part, not well-known personalities but articulate ordinary people: campus activists, Vietnam veterans, former hippies, union leaders, teachers, parents. Many of the clips have a grass-roots freshness (a dropout cheerfully concludes an impromptu lecture on the evils of the work ethic by saying, "So we struggle, in our own humble way, to destroy the United States"). And if there are some curious historical lapses (the show recounts the collapse of Lyndon Johnson's presidency without once mentioning Eugene McCarthy), the series makes...
Street Beat ministers to the most vulnerable in an area where the high school dropout rate approaches 30% and where 1 out of every 43 babies is born with the AIDS virus. It focuses on children and young adults 13 to 25, but will assist anyone who requests help. "When you are on the streets, you can't be selective," says Russo. "You have to service everyone out there or else they will isolate you." Eighty-five percent of Street Beat's clients are female; some have up to 20 clients a night. "The girls out here work; they...
...What is he going to do about the dropout problem in Cambridge?" he said. "That's the most wicked problem. These kids here need help...
...grammar school dropout, Weinberg built his fortune by buying Baltimore real estate at bargain prices and later investing in transit companies and Hawaiian properties. Weinberg's largesse was not entirely a surprise. During a 1984 visit to Israel, he donated $1 million to buy air conditioners for the country's nursing homes...