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Word: rolonda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1995-1995
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What the talks are about, in large part, is poverty and the distortions it visits on the human spirit. You'll never find investment bankers bickering on Rolonda, or the host of Gabrielle recommending therapy to sobbing professors. With few exceptions the guests are drawn from trailer parks and tenements, from bleak streets and narrow, crowded rooms. Listen long enough, and you hear references to unpaid bills, to welfare, to 12-hour workdays and double shifts. And this is the real shame of the talks: that they take lives bent out of shape by poverty and hold them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN DEFENSE OF TALK SHOWS | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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