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DIED. SANDRA GOULD, 73, actress; in Burbank, Calif. A veteran of hundreds of radio programs and two dozen films, she is best remembered as Gladys Kravitz, the rarely welcome next-door neighbor on Bewitched, and as Betty Rubble's voice on The Flintstones...
...viewers' kitchens? Minorities are best represented on workplace dramas (ER, NYPD Blue), but sitcoms, which focus more on family and society, tend to be colorless, color blind or awkwardly color conscious. (A rare exception is the wonderfully nuanced relationship between the Hill clan and Laotian next-door neighbors the Souphanousinphones on Fox's King of the Hill.) And if these casting decisions are injurious to minorities, they're insulting to whites, who the networks essentially imply are retrograde racists, years after warming to Jefferson, Huxtable and Urkel. And what if--God help us--they're right...
Davila knew he had a cultural clash on his hands when he took a call from a resident complaining that the next-door neighbor was growing corn in the front yard. New immigrants, Davila says, are "suspicious of cops. In Mexico most of a policeman's salary is from bribes. They think we're going to beat them up or take their money." It doesn't help that while Hispanics make up more than 28% of the 1.2 million residents of Phoenix, they account for only 12% of the city's police...
Named for former Harvard president Increase Mather, Class of 1656, increase was indeed on the mind of the architect who designed Mather House. Built in 1970, the towering Mather stands in contrast to some of its more traditional next-door neighbors. But an all but guaranteed single room keeps residents happy, despite the distance from the center of campus...
...Named for former Harvard president Increase Mather, Class of 1656, increase was indeed on the mind of the architect who designed Mather House. Built in 1970, the towering Mather stands in contrast to some of its more traditional next-door neighbors. But an all but guaranteed single room keeps residents happy, despite the distance from the center of campus...