Word: ghetto
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...independence part leader said that Puerto Ricans needed "a republican form of government" where important political and economic decisions were not made by the United States Congress. Statehood would relegate Puerto Rico to the staus of a "permanent tropical ghetto," the at-large senator said...
...landlords who wanted to remove rent-control constraints, he asked, "What about the people who are already in Manhattan? Do you just force them out and tell them it's nothing personal, just free-market forces at work?" While the Times editorial page spoke about the nuisance of ghetto kids trying to earn a few dimes by washing windshields, Schanberg put David Rockefeller and Alfonse D'Amato in the spotlight, questioning their role in trying to bulldoze Westway through a city of concerned citizens...
...however, it was. Then the Haight was not trendy but poor, a neighborhood near the Black ghetto where students and other non-mainstreamers gathered for cheap rents and a sense of community. The strands of the new thought and life were there, too: folk music, hip poetry, Mod fashion, Indian philosophy made popular by Beat writers and Martin Luther King...
Which is not to say it's short on poetry itself. Clinton has a sloganeer's knack for engineering mischievous, provocative lyrics. His songs intersperse sexual double entendres with street-talk to round out an informed polemic. The "message" of SOMBJAF--unlike that of Grandmaster Flash--transcends the ghetto cliches that make rap so egregious. We're talkin' the redefinition of urban sophistication...
...bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts or Harlem, conk means to straighten a person's hair with a lye solution, reports Cassidy, as well as carrying the more universal connotation of hitting "someone hard, esp on the head...