Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other business, Beys, the outgoingtreasurer, reported losses from the De la Soulconcert at $10,940.68. He said that corporatesponsorships from the concert raised $3,500 forthe homeless, however...
...macho. His humor bursts the bubble of ego without destroying anyone's dignity. He doesn't seem to have an enemy in the business, which partly accounts for the success of Comic Relief, his annual TV show with Whoopi Goldberg and Williams, which raises millions of dollars for the homeless...
...rotting in the streets," says ! Marian Lentz of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. Pichardo admits that some offbeat cults may be responsible for the animals floating in canals. But he insists that his own group cooks and ritually eats most of its animals, gives leftovers to the homeless, and neatly disposes of any carcasses that cannot be eaten because they have absorbed negative power...
...TEST OF A NOVEL'S VALUE IS WHETHer it has relevance beyond its time. John Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN (1937) meets that challenge. Its loser-heroes could be two of today's homeless horde searching for work, for value, for someone -- anyone -- who might find value in them. In Horton Foote's scrupulous new adaptation, John Malkovich is lumbering Lennie, whose frustrated tenderness crushes the things he would cherish; Gary Sinise is George, Lennie's protective pal; Sherilyn Fenn is the lonely wife held hostage by capricious fate. The credibility of their playing breaks through the familiar sanctity...
...self-generating, as we had thought. It may even be reversible. Famine and plague have returned to large parts of the world. Poverty is spilling over into the developed nations from the Third World. Desperate migrants pour into our cities, swelling the vast army of the homeless, unemployed, illiterate, drug-ridden, derelict and effectively disfranchised. Their presence strains existing resources to the limit. Medical and educational facilities, law- enforcement agencies and the supply of available jobs -- not to mention the supply of racial and ethnic goodwill, never abundant to begin with -- all appear inadequate to the enormous task of assimilating...