Word: netherworld
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...after the cities cooled down, attention waned, even though unemployment remains high. Since blacks have gained more political power in major cities, the danger posed by youth unemployment today does not seem to be mass violence. The peril is rather that thousands of young people are drifting into a netherworld of unemployment, welfare and crime from which they will not escape. Says Frank Slobig, director of the Roosevelt Centennial Youth Project, a Washington-based group: "We are creating a permanent class of young adults who may never overcome the system's neglect...
...statistically at least, fading into the netherworld of mediocrity. His fastball was not so fast...
...Argentina believe that the Soviet Union has offered weaponry and other forms of support. So far, the Argentines have shown no inclination to accept Soviet help. Peru and Venezuela have both offered military aid to Argentina, and there were reports last week that Argentina was scrambling in the netherworld of the private international arms market to satisfy some of its needs...
This last is provided by the smart, ambitious title character (Burt Reynolds, in his tough-romantic vein), who is a detective being disciplined with a tour of netherworld duty. What sets them all in muttering motion-in its best passages the movie sounds like a Robert Altman film, full of cynical asides and loopy observations-is the brutal murder of a call girl. Since one of the conventions of up-to-date murder mysteries is that pillars of the community must always have a slimy underside, she turns out to have been the victim of sexual perversity among the local...
...shabbiest of Allen's clients was Robert Vesco, the convicted swindler and professional refugee, who paid Allen $10,000 a month to do whatever it is a government consultant does. A Japanese automobile company also paid Allen a substantial sum to cultivate its interests in the government-consulting netherworld. All of these activities, however distasteful they might be, appear perfectly legal, but they raise disturbing questions about Allen's fitness to help guide the foreign policy of a nation. Allen seems to know this, for he has now admitted to making "mistakes," like failing to list his consulting clients...