Word: slum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly listened to anything else, apart from Motown, Stax, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding -- and Jackie Wilson. He was my favorite." All the members of UB40 have known one another since their shared childhoods in Balsall Heath, a predominantly black neighborhood near the center of Birmingham. "It was a slum," says Campbell, but Brian Travers, who plays sax and acts as de facto spokesman, cautions, "Don't get the idea that we grew up poor, because we didn't. We didn't go hungry and have holes in our shoes or anything...
...strategy called community action: first sell the downtrodden on their ability to bring about massive change within the system, then inspire them to go out and do it. The tactics are ingeniously simple but hardly new. They date to the 1930s when Alinsky used them in an Irish-American slum behind Chicago's stockyards...
Brothers gave me my first glimpse into the Robert Taylor Homes, and what life there can do to people. This book shows how utterly degrading publicly sanctioned slum living is. The steel mesh fencing that encloses the balconies of each building to prevent people from falling symbolizes the hopelessness that pervades the project. There's a great view of the city skyline, but through the bars of a cage it seems very far away...
THIS is one of the three faces we meet in the movie: a sleazeball performer disgusted by his audience and probably himself, telling (extremely funny) stories about the kind of characters Waits writes his songs about--lost, desperate, mired in some shitty marriage or godforsaken slum, and longing for something else...
Yesterday morning, slum dwellers killed and burned the body of one man and cheered when a soldier shot and killed another man suspected of participating in the massacre. By midday, the city was quiet, but the airport was closed...