Word: ghettoes
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...rents that have risen as much as 70 percent in three years have pushed the minorities, Blacks in particular, away from the center of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Most have ended up on the neighborhood's northwest fringe, not too far from the edges of Roxbury, Boston's Black ghetto. The Black residents are simply being compressed into smaller areas; according to MIT urban studies professor Yohel Camayd-Freixas, the central Jamaica Plain area averages two or three persons per hours, in contrast to twelve in the mostly Black section...
...prophets like Patrice Donnelly dare to tread, ingenious profiteers are sure to follow. The sexy-fit look has generated a booming business. Pop songs like Newton-John's Physical and Diana Ross's Work That Body scampered up the charts. Exercise records have broken out of the vanity-house ghetto: Mickey's Mousercise has sold more than 350,000 copies. New magazines like Fit and New Body are preaching an enlightened narcissism. Fitness gurus, from Richard Simmons to Kathy Smith to that rock-hard perennial Jack LaLanne, start the TV day with exhortations to slim down and tone...
...Rome's later days? Does the owner rant like Caligula? Will he select his horse to be the next manager? One drives up the Major Deegan Expressway in The Bronx, and in the summer dusk one may see a few blazes set by arsonists burning down the ghetto for the insurance. There in the distance Yankee Stadium glows with its wonderful radioactive light: a gem in a slum. One comes early for the batting practice; Frank Sinatra sings New York, New York over the p.a. system. Up in the broadcast booth, Phil Rizzuto is exclaiming, "Holy cow!" and "Huckleberry...
...greater threat to a society undergoing atomization and "massification." Shorris says that totalitarian society was then projected onto the student radicals of the Sixties: "The mob was coming, and it was coming out of the universities that had given the Jews a way up out of the ghetto...
...this case it is the least compelling. Pryor is not a flash, a freak, even a one-man trend; he is the soaring demon angel of movies, concerts and Grammy-winning albums. As a comedy monologuist, Pryor is without peer. Drawing his material from the black hole of ghetto life and death, Pryor uses his dramatic power to magnetize his listeners into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience. Vulnerability, untempered rage...