Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million Puerto Ricans, New York Correspondent Mary Cronin roamed from the South Bronx to that hallowed immigrant turf, the Lower East Side. Says she: "All the people were warm and brave, full of a joy of life, full of poetry, determined to hold on to their own rich culture in spite of incredible obstacles...
...there was a lot of serious talk about why alienation appears to decrease where one can rely on the third-party intervenor, i.e., why Action Lines are so popular. "Poor people have services provided," theorized Rita Levine of WELI'S Call for Action in Hamden, Conn. "Rich people can buy them. People in the middle get squeezed. They feel impotent in the corporate marketplace. They complain, get rebuffed and figure, Why bother? Well, we bother for them...
...difficulties in assimilating them. Many were blacks or people of mixed blood who were born in Africa. The majority of the whites had originally been dirt farmers from the impoverished north of Portugal; they had emigrated to Angola in the hope of a better life. Although few got rich, most had deep roots in Africa. Many of the refugees found it extremely difficult to adjust to a Portugal that was still in the throes of the post-Salazar transition to democracy and a mixed economy. Jobs, housing and schooling were scarce: thousands still live in wretched urban shantytowns...
...wanted it to be good. Gilligan's Island was the archetypal stupid situation comedy, but think of all the hours we spent with it. How many of you sharpened your critical faculties arguing about why those rich Howells would take all their money and most of their wardrobes on a three-hour cruise, or what they were even doing on that dinky boat in the first place, if they're so rich and probably have a yacht? And where did that record player come from? Not to mention the records...
...wife, Miss Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), is not exactly your average female protagonist in a Western. Ambitious and pennywise, Julia lives on a farm outside Longhorn, which lies near an abandoned gold mine bequeathed by her late father. In need of a man to help her strike it rich and return to her beloved Philadelphia, Julia settles for the grungy Moone, despite his atrocious table manners and ravenous sexual appetite...