Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more subtle. Police shouldn't torture men suspected of terrorism, because they might not have done it. Soldiers should not rape girls, because they might be as cute as Bambi. Corporate lawyers (Hollywood's new villain, here and in The Firm and The Pelican Brief) should not railroad a man with AIDS, because he might be Tom Hanks...
...coming to an end. After being processed at Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay and other immigration centers, millions of these rural folk found themselves confined to the mean streets of urban ghettos like Manhattan's , festering Lower East Side, working at menial jobs and crammed into narrow railroad flats that lacked both heat and privacy...
...Opium Wars, Chinese first began arriving in California during the 1840s. Initially, they were welcomed. During the 1860s, 24,000 Chinese were working in the state's gold fields, many of them as prospectors. As the ore gave out, former miners were hired to build the Central Pacific Railroad; others dug the irrigation canals that poured fertility -- and prosperity -- into the Salinas and San Joaquin valleys...
...pageant of American history has always looked rather different to the descendants of slaves than it does to descendants of slave owners. Not surprisingly, it also appears less than festive to the descendants of conquered natives, exploited migrant workers or Chinese railroad coolies. To them the vital history lesson is not the myth embodied in the Statue of Liberty but the reality of immigration laws that sharply restricted the chances of Hispanic and Asians. They value less the dazzling engineering feat of the transcontinental railroad than the abuse of laborers. They see the culture that shaped America...
...obvious -- the flat, sharp overlaps of form, legible silhouettes and generally high degree of abstraction in the color -- it isn't notably dynamic; ^ it tends to an Egyptian stillness, friezelike even when you know the subject was in motion, like the crowd surging into the narrow slot between two railroad cars in No. 23, And the Migration Spread...