Word: ghettoes
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...Year of the Dragon chronicles the decay of a Chinese-American family living in San Francisco's Chinatown. The play could be an interesting look at one of America's ghetto communities, but it turns out to be another recounting of the death of the American dream, combined with elements from Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming...
...Chronicle of the Amber Cloud," a strange affliction attacks priviliged white adolescents and is quickly diagnosed as "Ghetto Disease." Their skin color darkened, "youngsters who had been alert, personable, and confident became lethargic, suspicious, withdrawn and hopelessly insecure...
...routine ensemble sitcom in the Cheers mode, but it has grown increasingly audacious and appealing. In one episode, the family of a man killed at the wheel of his truck threatens to sue the restaurant for serving him too many drinks; a white lawyer travels into the black ghetto to discover that the victim actually committed suicide. In another show, Frank (Tim Reid) is courted by a high-class black men's club, which practices its own form of race discrimination. Prospective members are traditionally given a "paper bag" test: only those with skin lighter than the bag are asked...
...Kramer, an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, exudes the resentment of a young man who has to live in a small, narrow, $888-a-month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother-in-law). The underclass is represented mainly by ghetto felons: armed robbers who list their occupations as "security guards" and young drug pushers who have mastered "the Pimp Roll," a swaggering gait not uncommon on the city's streets...
...guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe...though they might make a mean team. "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...