Word: ghetto
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...people- mostly unskilled and black- have found work in plants that Control Data has opened in the ghettos of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Washington, D.C. The number will rise to 1 ,400 next January when Norris opens a fourth plant in a renewal area of St. Paul. Other business chiefs have tried to build in the ghetto, only to fail. Norris says he knows why: "They figured it was just philanthropy. They sent in their money, but not their smarts or their guts...
...bullies like a demented overseer, seldom speaks below a shriek and worships at the church of ostentation. Would you like to live next door to The Jeffersons? Or consider the character J.J. on TV's Good Times: a bug-eyed young comic of the ghetto with spasms of supercool blowing through his nervous system, a kind of ElectraGlide strut. "Dy-no-mite!" goes J.J., to convulse the audience in the way that something like "Feets, do your stuff!" got to them three decades ago. Then there is the character Ray Ellis in Baby, I'm Back: a feckless...
What a heart-warming sight for this World War II veteran's tired old eyes: an ex-Marine from the ghetto taking the boxing title away from the world's richest and most famous draft dodger...
Holder throws bolts and bolts of gaudy cloth over a production, possibly to hide its flaws. With The Wiz it worked, since the show had a story line that could be playfully transposed to a jazzy urban-ghetto setting. But Kismet was a fable, and fables are too fragile for Holder's broad, jumping, visceral style...
Lies My Father Told Me. My friends all cried during this Canadian "I remember Grandpa" tale by Jan Kadar, set in a Jewish ghetto. Gramps rode the streets in a horse-drawn wagon, selling and buying rags, clothes, and bottles, and teaching his grandson, the narrator, to be simple, pious, etc. I found it lumpy and mediocre, with one of the most puerile scores ever written, but the atmosphere is pleasant, and you might sniffle a little when they take away Grandpa's horse and it kills him. Nasty, bad people...