Word: ghettoes
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...rape are accompanied by screams and wails; at the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony-a wartime symbol for victory-the screen fills with hundreds of Morse code Vs, dots and dashes rendered in red, white and blue. As Taylor recites Pavel Friedman's famous ghetto poem, The Butterfly, an animated sun fills a small room, and a Disneyesque creature flaps through, cheapening a transcendent human document...
...more folk. And he was almost right, but not wholly. The urbanization of American culture, the bulldozing of eddies, pockets and old beliefs, went on everywhere. But there have been exemptions in some areas. One of these was the rural black community in the South; another, the city ghetto. Yet no major museum, until recently, asked the question: Is there a black folk-art tradition that survives today, now that the white one has died...
...live in it.'' In The Bandit, Gilford plays Aleichem himself, terrified by a thief, then retelling his role, à la Falstaff, as heroic. In The High School, the longest and most didactic episode, Gilford plays a domineering and ignorant father whose son is anxious to leave the ghetto for the new century. Between these sketches, Adapter Arnold Perl has shoehorned Bontche Schweig, by I.L. Peretz, a man without Aleichem's name or talent, presumably to allow Gilford a star turn. The late Schweig, presented to God and his angels, has only one line, but it is enough...
...slaying is the most serious incident in the brief and controversial history of the Guardian Angels. Just three years ago, they were the "Magnificent 13," a group of unarmed, street-smart youths who took it upon themselves to patrol New York City's crime-ridden subways. Ghetto residents felt that their presence on trains deterred muggers; transit police thought the red-bereted youths were a nuisance and dismissed Sliwa as a self-promoting vigilante. After a "memorandum of understanding," which assured police cooperation with the Angels, was worked out with New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Sliwa intensified...
...begun to set up chapters in the suburbs. In bedroom communities around Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, for example, their mission is to deter house break-ins and assaults in shopping malls. In the process of expanding, the Angels are trying to shed their image as a squad of reformed ghetto toughs. In the Midwest and West, many volunteers are middle-class whites. Says Sliwa: "In Los Angeles I was astounded to see blond-haired, blue-eyed boys drive up in cars with surfboards, park and go out on patrol...