Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty...
...desk one morning recently, Teodoro Moscoso, the Puerto Rican development expert who now bosses the U.S. end of the Alliance for Progress, penned a bluntly worded memorandum to his staff. "On Aug. 17," said Moscoso, "we mark the first anniversary of the Alliance. We 'mark' it. We do not celebrate it. There will be time enough to celebrate when we have achieved a working alliance and an extensive progress. As yet I am not satisfied that we have either...
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty...
...tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle, and keens a somber threnody on Spanish guitar strings. The cross-cultural music is apt, for this is Spanish Harlem, known in Manhattan as "El Barrio," home to the huddled masses of the postwar wave of Puerto Rican immigration. The ingredients of this melting pot are concrete, corruption, and the vast hurrying indifference of the megalopolis. This is where the new American is made the hard way-out of pain, dirt, disease, violence and death...
...those brick-strewn empty lots that pockmark the city like bomb craters; a woman's clothed and rigid body floating just below the surface in a bathtub, her open eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime in Manhattan's uptown slum. But as fiction, Strangers is a gripping shocker...