Word: slumming
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...Najaf, one of the holiest cities in Islam, is a crumbling slum. Poverty is not a condition found on the fringe areas of the city. It is endemic to the entire society. War has only made the dire situation more acute. Lives have been overturned. Lack of water and electricity add new miseries to an already arduous existence. The U.S. would like to think that its presence as "liberators" will give them hope for better life here. For now, however, the power vacuum created by the elimination of the Baath party makes the effort futile - and it may even threaten...
...from Cambodia with a bunch of dried toads," declares artist Jerry Swaffield, pretty much by way of introduction. Thirty minutes later, he's prowling a patch of Bangkok wasteland, cars howling past on the expressway above, a stylishly ruffled figure picking through rubbish, which?in the opinion of gawking slum dwellers nearby?has already been stripped clean of anything valuable. "Very rich pickings," muses Swaffield, before plunking himself down in a discarded armchair that is hemorrhaging orange and yellow foam. "Awesome," he pronounces...
...slick Hollywood formulas. But two of the best Latin movies now playing in the U.S. and Europe benefit from at least one Tinseltown trick: good timing. Brazilian co-directors Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund's City of God, the brutally realistic saga of a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, got a big publicity boost after it opened last summer, when real drug gangs swept out of Rio's favelas and briefly shut down posh neighborhoods like Copacabana. And Mexican director Carlos Carrera's The Crime of Father Amaro, the taboo-busting story of a Roman Catholic priest who impregnates...
CITY OF GOD. Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction. City of God screens...
...Benedita Da Silva Born in a Rio slum, Da Silva is set to help Brazil's poor as the new Welfare Minister...