Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffering. The Vietnamese were not like those Europeans who resigned themselves to their fascist conquerors. They resembled the members of the French Resistance, shot by believers in nationhood and race, who with their last breaths affirmed their solidarity with the revolutionaries of Germany; or the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto, goaded beyond endurance or hope into a desperate refusal to submit. And that is why--even a year after the cease-fire--the most intemperate attacks on those who forced the Vietnamese to such desperate straits, who called forth such hopeless and inhuman heroism, continue to make sense...
...Gary Taylor, who just finished eighteen months for drug addiction, used his time working on a novel. Dellinger says of Margaret Martinez, a prolific young Chicano who is in for three years for smuggling dope: "She has the potential to do for the barrio what James Baldwin did for ghetto life." Liddy has not been published either, and does not want to be-at least for the present. But like all his classmates, he seems to be using the writing to help himself understand his current feelings. His favorite theme is that of the warrior without honor...
...tight, clean operation in which all roads led directly into my office." If that corporate chart sounds like Napoleon's plan for the highways of France, Yablans would not deny it. "It's easy to be humble if you were born a prince. I came from a ghetto...
...wearing an unauthorized third dog tag that reads, "If you are recovering my body,-you." He tunes in on a Vietnamese girl, who learned her English from a black G.I., as she tells of her gruesome experiences during the Tet offensive in the funky phrases of the Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. Does one gasp or laugh? That is a life problem, not a literary one. Jones just records what he hears...
...answer is not much more interesting than the question. It is, of course, both dislocating and diverting to have such small-time Chayefsky framed in a raw ghetto context. Much of the wild street talk is funny, and the acting often superb. Glynn Turman's Steve is a skillfully subtle combination of pride and confusion. Dick A. Williams' dazzlingly evil pimp sweeps round the stage, almost a production unto himself, costumed like a Liberace with soul...