Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy may also sound different from a mother's point of view. When her turn came to speak last Thursday, Ferraro sounded like any politician, male or female, touching the right chords ("Straight-forward, solid Americans") and the right bases ("My good friend, Charlie Rangel, the Congressman from Harlem"). That may change, to her surprise, as she is confronted by questions and concerns that are not conventionally political...
...differently by every person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah, who have been waging a bitter back-lot struggle for control of the way-over-budget ($58 million in all, some say) Harlem jazz-era epic with Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Gregory Nines. Says Evans of Coppola, in one reported sample of the prevailing civility: "He has as much respect for money as I do for Gaddafi." Waving aside intimations of drug abuse and gangland connections, Judge Hill left Evans in charge...
...time the kids [who become pregnant] are trying to get away from home," says New York City Welfare Caseworker James Silvers. However, black families rupture along various fissures: the mother of one of Silvers' 17-year-old clients, for instance, recently kicked the daughter out of their Harlem apartment when she became pregnant out of wedlock; the baby's father left town...
David managed to get admitted to Harvard in 1974, but he dropped out of college two years later. He completed a term at Harvard last fall, but took the spring term off to take stock of his life. One night in 1979, he went to Harlem in his BMW, presumably to buy drugs. He was mugged in the lobby of a sleazy hotel...
...Farrakhan's contributions to the Jackson campaign. He has played a great role in helping to resurrect many people who had politically died or dropped out. In New York, for example, a large segment of the black community had a philosophy against voting. When we marched in Harlem, there were huge numbers of people who had never voted before; Farrakhan was a great factor in making that happen...