Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malaise of poverty is pervasive, restricting opportunities before they even arise. Some of the kids in the area around the Center have never even been into central Boston, though it's just a trolley ride away. Poverty also has been linked to disease. Federal statistics show that for a person under 45 with an income of $10,000 or more the average number of visits to a physician is 5.0 per year. When the income level drops to under $3,000 visits drop to 3.2 per year. Even with free medical programs this discrepancy remains. In England after fifteen years...
...recently bought it, he told them how he was introducing soul music around the country in places where it had never been on the air, then Atkins told about the performer's philanthropy. But even after the meticulous display of credentials, Brown continued to worry out loud about his ride. "I'm a Soul Brother and don't you forget it... I don't want to be one of those people who get lost in society and sit back and wonder what is going on down there. If the Black man has a problem, it's my problem...
PLAZA SUITE is a ride through a tunnel of fun, flecked with a recognition of life's unfunny truths. In three playlets, Neil Simon hawks almost uninterrupted laughter, particularly in a sly satire of the Sunset Strip set, and a flailing farce about the father of a most reluctant bride...
Fleeing from some unnamed shoot-'em-up. five badmen ride into the tiny frontier town of Firecreek, where they settle down while Fonda recuperates from a bullet wound in his side. The sheriff turns out to be earnest, mild-mannered James Stewart-a simple sodbuster who carries no gun and wears a badge emblazoned SHERAF that his kids made for him. Fonda has the wound.in his side, and later his wounded psyche, nursed by a local spinster (Inger Stevens), while his boys raise hell with an itinerant preacher (Ed Begley), smash up a saloon, and try to gang-rape...
...York's police assign a green, gawky Jewish detective (George Segal) to find the answer. After eyeballing the first victim, Segal promptly advances a pop-psych theory to the press: the murderer, he argues, is a mother hater who takes Mom for a slay ride every time he garrotes a middle-aged lady...