Word: philadelphia
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...middle-class homes and are working for pocket change. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 4.7 million minimum wagers. Heads of households represent less than 25% of the total, and teenagers 37%. Says William Dunkelberg, dean of the School of Business Administration at Temple University in Philadelphia: "There are better ways to help the poor than with the shotgun approach of a minimum wage...
Inevitably, the centerpiece of the Biennale is the U.S. pavilion with its show of Jasper Johns' work since 1974, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and treated to a piercing catalog exegesis by its curator Mark Rosenthal. , Johns' presence at the Biennale seems to close the American parenthesis that Rauschenberg opened there 24 years ago, and one leaves it convinced he is the deepest of living American artists, a painter whose subtlety and richness of imagination stand beyond doubt even when, as sometimes happens, one cannot find a direct way among the hints, inversions, repetitions and false scents...
...like pitting the Philadelphia Phillies versus the Atlanta Braves--they're both in the basement," says Harry Neilson, a 60 year-old Republican from Spartanburg, South Carolina...
Some advances are being made. Planned for next fall is a syndicated music- variety series called The Latin Connection, a Hispanic-flavored cross between American Bandstand and Entertainment Tonight. Bravo, a Philadelphia- based talk show focusing on Hispanic issues, is gearing up for nationwide syndication. The show will be taped, uniquely, in two versions: English and Spanish. By far the most ambitious upcoming project is El Pueblo/L.A., a 14- hour mini-series being planned by CBS for telecast in 1989. The series, produced by Actor Peter Strauss, will chronicle the interplay of cultures that helped shape the city...
...based in Atlanta, has initially received a total of $1.75 million from the BellSouth Foundation in Atlanta and the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia to implement the effort that emphasizes academic skills and teacher recruitment, Kinnick said. SEF officials hope to rasie the rest of the funds later...