Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...episodes on its Nick at Nite channel). The gimmick: a wholesome 1950s TV family materializes in 1991 New Jersey, where they find that their sweetness-and-light television fantasy life (which they can revert to by switching themselves into black and white) clashes with the real world of muggers, homeless people and feminist single mothers...
...Bumper stickers advised good citizens to SAVE A FLAG, BURN A PROTESTER. And the nastiness didn't end with the hostilities overseas. One of the official entertainers for the June victory parade in Washington was radio talk-show personality Blake Clark, whose theme is, "If you aren't homeless, if you aren't sick, if you have all your body parts, if ^ you have a job, then just shut...
Atlanta is promoting itself as the vanguard of the New South and the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics. One flaw in its progressive image, however, is the thousands of homeless beggars in its downtown area. Last week Mayor Maynard Jackson proposed an ordinance to ban aggressive panhandling, sleeping in vacant buildings and hanging out in parking lots. Violators could get 60 days in prison, a $1,000 fine, or both...
...attempt to "sanitize" Atlanta's downtown for the benefit of business and in anticipation of the Olympics. "We believe this law will be selectively enforced to restrict certain people's movements, and we will fight it," said Anita Beaty, co-director of the Task Force for the Homeless. But police chief Eldrin Bell argued that the ordinance would, in fact, protect the homeless from criminals...
...itself spiritual. It is nothing more than sentimental. It takes, for example, a highly selective view of the benignity of nature. My nature worship stops with the April twister that came through Andover, Kans., or the May cyclone that killed more than 125,000 Bengalis and left 10 million (!) homeless...