Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film, which was shot on location around campus last year, chronicles the life of a group of Harvard seniors who befriend a homeless man--played by actor Joe Pesci...
...account, a relatively happy childhood until his parents, a cocktail waitress and an auto mechanic, got divorced. He was only eight at the time, and he claimed the traumatic split fueled the anguish in Nirvana's music. He shuttled back and forth between various relatives, even finding himself homeless at one point and living under a bridge. His budding artistry and iconoclastic attitude didn't win him many fans in high school; instead, he attracted beatings from "jocks and moron dudes," as an old friend once put it. Cobain got even by spray-painting QUEER on his tormentors' pickup trucks...
Some have worried that the lovable Joe Pesci will provoke students into going out and trying to find their very own curmudgeonly-but-cute Homeless Person to bring a little wit and wisdom to drab dorm rooms (and of course to fill all that extra space we have). Only time will tell...
...postponed his appointment, my office sent Mr. Ryan a list of additional witnesses who could corroborate Mr. Ntshanga's prior confrontation with Sergeant Stanford--a confrontation that, if true, would demonstrate that the HUPD obviously knew when it arrested Mr. Ntshanga that he was a student and not a homeless "trespasser...
More importantly, they reach people who ordinarily do not spend much money on the print media (like high school students and the homeless) and they give a mouthpiece to groups whose perspective is often either rejected or narrowly represented by the mainstream media...