Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernstein is a cute black homosexual; and Connie, the old maid, everybody's best friend. Although they spend hours together in heavy intellectual raps, when something important happens--the suicide of Anita, Sarah running off to Mexico with Robert, Larry getting a role in a Hollywood movie as a neighborhood tough--none of them know how to respond. They only draw on their cigarettes and look more lost, leaving the emotion unrecorded while the image remains...
Visiting the second of the closets first, the entourage drove to a predominantly black neighborhood in northern San Francisco, where ungraciously aging Victorian structures line the streets. Some 150 newsmen and photographers were already waiting at 1827 Golden Gate Ave. when Patty arrived in a green Plymouth. In the crush, U.S. marshals formed a flying wedge to lead Patty...
Starched Tutus. Dance's new girl, it seems, is a guy-Antony Bassae. Along with the nine other "ballerinos" of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Bassae performs in satin toe shoes and starched tutus. The Trock less than two years ago started in Manhattan Soho lofts and neighborhood shoebox theaters. This week it makes a leap into respectability with a four-night stand at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In addition to aiming choreographic broadsides at such sacred swans as George Balanchine ("Go for Barocco") and Martha Graham ("Phaedra/Monotonous"), the Trock delivers a few pointed comments on Tchaikovsky...
Other episodes take place, as on Sesame Street, in neighborhood settings. Because black and Hispanic children are a special concern, many of the shows are filmed in black areas or in the barrio. For example, at "Julio's Panaderia," a bakery in East Los Angeles, a Chicano family solves everyday problems with math. Coolidge Cool Breeze, a disc jockey on Factory, is a character designed to appeal to blacks. Dialing a number, Cool Breeze croons: "Might this be the home of Olive Crabtree? Can you tell me for one hundred big smackers what the answer is to eight times...
...residents, the plans signify a lack of faith on Hill's part. Some of them say they believe the proposal will no doubt be forced through, making them flee their neighborhood for no good reason and then have to pay substantially for it later...