Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CAPTION: Would you favor having a homeless shelter in your neighborhood...
...naked male buttocks and female breasts, a rainbow-colored staircase that lights up, a nonplot full of nonsense and nonjokes, an unseen Great Voice played by Gregory Peck, rope tricks and a dog act. What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...
...naked male buttocks and female breasts, a rainbow-colored staircase that lights up, a nonplot full of nonsense and nonjokes, an unseen Great Voice played by Gregory Peck, rope tricks and a dog act. What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...
...tiny living room. Bobby's rich tenor voice bounces off the beige walls, bare except for a few Christmas decorations, in a jazzy version of White Christmas. "We'll have Christmas anyway. It'll be better next year," he says. The family is still only a paycheck away from homelessness, but they have acquired some valuable lessons. "I used to look at homeless people on the street and think, 'Man, what a drunk bum,' " says Bobby. "But shoot, man, you never know." It's made Nicole want to stay in school. "I should have a job," she says...
...Hardens, of course, are the rare exceptions to a hard rule. They are safe and together, in a place of their own. Most homeless children will spend this holiday watching TV in a shelter or a rundown motel -- if they are even that lucky. When Christmas is over, there will still be no end of work to be done, and a crying need for miracles...