Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Determined to clean their closets while bringing "happy faces" to the homeless in the Boston area, Littauer Building staff members have organized a unique clothing drive...
Montgomery County Police have charged a 40-year old homeless man with the murder of Laura B. Houghteling '91, who disappeared from her Bethesda, Md., home on October...
This Aladdin is no prince in disguise. He is an anonymous thief, a homeless ghetto kid in the imperial city of Agrabah, ruled by a flustery Sultan and his Vincent Price-y adviser Jafar. On the streets Aladdin meets the Sultan's daughter Jasmine, who has rejected every royal suitor in the Middle East. Love and ambition smite Aladdin; a thirst for adventure seizes Jasmine. In fact, each of the main characters seeks freedom: Aladdin from poverty, Jasmine from her regal confinement, the Sultan from Jafar's silky domination, and the Genie from an eternity in the lamp...
...responds to a mention of her son's stay in a mental institution: "We don't like to call it the mental institution, we call it the loony bin or the nuthouse to show we have a sense of humor about it." Lee undercuts our inclination to pity a homeless woman who has to take her two children to live in a church: "On Sundays," she tells us, "the nuns roll out a sheet of dough and, with a shot glass, they cut out those--you know, what do you call it--body of Christ things...
...larger issues? The relationship between the homeless and rest of society was dealt with much too glibly. There was a lot of "Hey, Harvard, you don't see all this and it's right in front of you." Yeah. Dorf's vision wasn't really revelatory or shocking; his homeless characters were conventionalized to a sort of bland pissed-offedness that no number of references to Au Bon Pain could infuse with reality. And the seamy side of it all--the drug abuse, the prostitution that gives Ben a chance at quick money--felt like it came from the Young...