Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...producer Linda Yellen, grew out of improvisations at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, so a wary male critic is at least prepared for the film's politically correct earnestness. One of the group, Natalie (JoBeth Williams), is a movie critic who raises money to make a film about homeless women. Another, Maggie (Talia Shire), is a nun who faces a spiritual crisis after she helps a woman get an abortion. There are lesbian revelations, a discussion of the Anita Hill hearings and rampant man bashing. Rheza (Lindsay Crouse) has been dumped by her husband and bears a grudge. Hannah (Helen...
...staved in a motel in Westtield where overcome was either in a motorcycle gang, or they were homeless families who the state is paying to stay there," Bamberger says. "We spent a lot of time talk my to those people...
...Pellegrino's parental rights were terminated a few weeks afterward; the abandoned baby was placed for adoption. A few months later, Pellegrino reappeared and sued to regain custody, which would mean taking the baby out of a secure home and sending her to live with her mother in a homeless shelter. Late last year the state supreme court granted Pellegrino custody, evoking an enormous public outcry. "The best interests of the child were totally ignored," says state mental-health commissioner Dr. Albert Jay Solnit. "What was worshipped was the technicality of law and the mystique of blood ties...
...Foster G. McGaw prize, awarded by the Illinois-based philanthropic organization Baxter Foundation and the American Hospital Association, cited the hospital's "visionary" outreach programs such as health care for the homeless, house calls for the homebound elderly, and a school-based teen health center...
...their sentiments entirely xenophobic. Many contend that at a time of slow job growth and pinched budgets for social services, the country simply cannot accommodate a flood of the world's "homeless, tempest-tost." Bette Hammond, spokeswoman for a California group calling itself STOP IT -- for Stop the Out-of-Control Problems of Immigration Today -- suggests a rewrite of Lazarus: "If the Statue of Liberty could speak, she would say, 'Many of my people are jobless and homeless. My natural resources are fast disappearing from overcrowding and pollution, while my cities are full of crime. My domestic tranquillity...