Word: homelessness
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...helps that the film never resorts to tub thumping. Salles doesn't explicitly lay blame for the social conditions they come across; instead he fills the screen with the real people that his actors, retracing Guevara's and Granado's steps, met and spoke with: dispossessed farmers, poor miners, homeless families and lepers. The stark black-and-white portraits show a population strong with pride. For just a moment, they become the icons. By peering behind the myth, Salles has made a man out of Che Guevara. The only glimpse of where the man is headed comes when Granado thinks...
...officer conducted a field interview and ran the individual for wants and warrants with positive results. Officers arrested Dale Theriault, 26, who is homeless, for warrant service...
Chang said she was told by her friend on July 9 that Lin had spent the day attempting to check into area homeless shelters, only to be turned away because he was not yet 18 and could not sign himself in. She said she felt obligated to let Lin stay in her room overnight...
...Bush Green past midnight, you’ll see how hard it is to understand, much less summarize, a city like this in the space of an essay. In between lovely greens, brooding men threaten another with knives; drunken people stagger around looking for a light; forlorn homeless wander past into the dark of the park; someone breaks a car window; friends laugh and urinate on storefronts; the police pass, looking for someone, maybe...
...kept right on booming. Those gains, however, were unequally distributed. Reagan liked to say that the government provided a "safety net" for the "truly needy," but it was during these years that, for the first time since the Depression, there appeared those huddled figures who became known as "the homeless...