Word: socio
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...Tracy Chapman's signature song and biggest hit to date. Nothing on her fifth album, Telling Stories, is going to change or rival that. That said, it is not a bad effort. Bluesy guitars and Chapman's definitive soothing, soulful voice drive the tracks, which range from personal to socio-political, as she tries to return to the intensity and musicality of her early work...
...hard to find a place where people get along so well, with the camaraderie between people of such different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds," Brennan said. "During the day you have all regulars, then at night the college kids come in, and everyone gets along, everyone leaves the Bow happy...
...nine women in the prison, seven of them are black, and while the town's upper -middle class population seems to be completely white, a black woman and her child are the only individuals seen shopping in an urban thrift store. The racial make-up might be geographically and socio-economically correct, but the proportions in the film are noticeably awkward...
...films' tone varied: they could teach with a smile, a scowl or a sneer. Some had progressive messages, favoring family planning, opposing witch hunts and racial prejudice. Others could leave lasting scars. Sid Davis' socio-splatter movies often ended in violent death, simply because a boy had driven too fast or hitched a ride with a homosexual. In Davis' babes-in-bandage Live and Learn, kids get impaled on scissors, blinded by BB blasts, or run over while playing baseball on the street. If only they'd watched this movie...
...Undergraduate Council] UC as not dealing with these issues which interest me, such as race relations, and what is the fair socio-economic distribution in society in the real world," Lee wrote in an e-mail message...