Word: patricias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar: a suspicion of unfamiliar customs and a tendency to blame problems on newcomers. Many Bradfordians complain that destitute immigrants are given cash payments by the government when they disembark at Heathrow Airport, while white pensioners must scrimp along on inadequate retirement pay. Describing herself as opposing immigration, Shopkeeper Patricia Barrow is convinced that the Pakistanis inhumanely slaughter sheep and chickens according to Islamic ritual; she also fears that "colored boys will be hanging around white girls...
Most significant, the Houston conference was a crash course in practical politics that will make many of the participants more effective in local causes. Says New York Delegate Patricia Bailey: "We learned the ropes of the political process, how it works, how it happens. I saw that the people who were getting things done weren't the loudest. The women who were more effective were very quietly coming round to people to get their support." Now, adds Bailey, an ardent, pro-plan feminist, "we are coming back to the grass-roots level, and we are going...
Detroit: Coleman A. Young, 59, is equally at home wolfing down hot dogs on a ghetto street or dining on filet de boeuf Richelieu with Henry Ford II. An early supporter of Jimmy Carter, Young was rewarded when the President paid him a visit during the campaign. HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and Muhammad Ali also came into the state. Henry Ford II lent his assistance. Young's main opposition was concentrated in the largely white police force, where there is particular resentment against his policy of favoring blacks for city jobs and promotions...
...Patricia Blake...
...American Friend. Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, who also authored the novel that was the source of the Hitchcock classic "Strangers on a Train," Wim Wenders' new thriller is frighteningly effective. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn in the best performances of their careers as a dying Swiss picture framer and a psychologically-shattered American who helps manipulate the picture framer into murdering an upper-echelon Mafioso, and Wenders' sharp eye and dramatic sense hone the film to a remarkably fine edge...