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Stories about deHory's life make for a marvelous puzzle. The man affects the aristocrat, adopting the "de" before his pseudonym and wearing a monocle. Yet Irving traces his origins back to a Budapest ghetto, where deHory started life as Elemere Hoffman. Irving claims that Elmyr's fakes hang in prestigious museums all over Europe and America, but the so-called experts insist not. Others swear up and down that deHory signed the paintings he forged, making their sale illegal; the charming counterfeiter (no doubt at his lawyer's behest) denies the charge. The testimony conflicts like crazy...
...work so well. No public housing has been built recently. Daley refused to put the projects in white areas and lost federal funds as a result. Chicago remains statistically the most segregated major city in the nation. And the Machine can't and won't do much for ghetto dwellers. The infant mortality rate is higher in Chicago than in any other large metropolitan area...
...Protestant mob attacked with everything from brass knuckles to spiked clubs, throwing injured marchers into the river below while police looked on. On August 12, the Apprentice Boys, a Unionist group which yearly commemorates the 17th century Protestant victory in Ulster, marched outside the walls of the Catholic Bogside ghetto, shouting taunts--obscenities and slurs against the Pope--and showering pennies down on the Catholics from above the wall. The Protestant taunts elicited a barrage of stones from the Catholics--and the fracas quickly evolved into the week-long battle of Bogside. The first nine deaths of the conflict came...
...greatly irritates the usually unflappable Wilson. He correctly points out that the prime victims of street crime are the urban poor and claims that his real concern is with "the disadvantaged society." Throughout his writing, Wilson makes a special effort to show how his theories meet the needs of ghetto blacks and urban poor...
...Survival--that's the name of the game," Cliff said in explaining that about half of the movie--including many ghetto scenes--was autobiographical...