Word: racial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power of love over the irrationality of rivalry and hate, "West Side Story" reminds us that issues of discrimination and injustice never go away. The portrayals of the gangs, white and Puerto Rican, are intended to illuminate the desperate situation of a life based on violence and discrimination along racial lines...
...about a decade, studies have found racial discrepancies in the treatment of kidney failure, heart disease, arthritis, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses...
...study found that several of the reasons usually offered for the racial gap do not account for the difference. Three common theories are that more black patients do not want transplants, that fewer black patients have private health insurance and that more black patients have fatal diseases that make transplants unnecessary...
However, the HMS study found that three-fifths of the racial gap remained after taking all of those factors into account...
...Avalon (1990), he felt he had finished with tales about growing up in the city's Jewish neighborhood in the 1950s. But then an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY review of his 1998 movie, Sphere, referred to Dustin Hoffman as a "noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down and wrote for three straight weeks, imagining characters from his past talking about race, religion and class. "It wasn't writing," he says...