Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Welfare Cadilac seemed especially peculiar. Written five years ago by Guy Drake, a sort of combination Pa Kettle-Tex Ritter, the song portrays the welfare recipient as an improvident lout battening on the public purse. ("This house that I live in is mine but it's really a shack, but I always manage somehow to drive me a brand-new Cadilac...
...effective defenders of the black poor. It has chapters in all 50 states that are working to help welfare recipients secure their full legal benefits without bowing to such indignities as midnight raids designed to uncover males in a household. A mother of six, she was born in a shack near Little Rock and now works out of Los Angeles. Such determined black women as Brooklyn's Mrs. Shirley Chisholm are proving effective in politics. Formerly a consultant on child welfare for New York City, she successfully ran for the state assembly. Then she bucked the Democratic organization to become...
Both are well aware that the North is no promised land. But Mike, at least, wants to get out of Ludowici (population about 2,000), where his father runs a shoe-repair shop in a roadside shack. Mike disdains separatist ideology, but sees his future in terms of heightened black identity: "Whites used to say, 'Respect us because we are beautiful.' Now we are saying: 'O.K., and you respect us because we are black and we are beautiful too.' " Says Rose Marie: "This is a new day and a new time, and they know...
...such entrepreneurial witch, Madame Azteca, lives just across the border in the Mexican town of Reynosa. In one room of her shack, she works her magic sitting before two enormous, bubbling cauldrons, with mysterious colored powders arrayed on shelves behind. On the floor is a brilliant $500 red carpet-a payment from the Yturria family, whose only son Tony faced the gringo's draft two years ago. The witch tried her spells and powders on Tony's behalf, but he was inducted anyway. "The spirits just wouldn't cooperate," said Madame Azteca...
Levy is this the heir to the avant-garde of Ray, Richter. Duchamp, and Dali, and also the most sophisticated of Eisenstein's psychology and his montage of shack therapy. Indeed Levy's ??? on film are built around similar percept?? ??? (though in his case, with a Phl). in theoretical physics from Cambridge, the science is a good ??? more ??? fide) and his recourse to similar language ("emotional shocks." for instance ??? predominantly in his theory...