Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Armed with $1,100 in savings and a vision of ending racial enmity by bringing white and black together, Coll pressed on. He rented a storefront office with a telephone. He gave his outfit a name with a resonantly contemporary ring: "The Revitalization Corps, America's Citizen Peace Corps." He dreamed up zingy program monikers like "Operation Amigo," and zealously advertised for volunteers. His guiding conviction was simple: "Most of the people in this country, black and white, want an integrated society...
...Pawnbroker, The Group), who has never shown a scintilla of genuine wit, aims for nothing less than political satire. Since Duke's parole, it seems, he has had no secrets that the cops do not know instantly. When he consults a black driver who lives above a Panther storefront, Duke's schemes are electronically processed. T-men tune in on his conversations with Angelo; even the apartment of Duke's mistress (Dyan Cannon) is tapped by a jealous lover. As the plans unfurl, the eavesdroppers are heavily lampooned. America, in a supposedly shattering revelation, is shown...
Tiefer quit his job, sank his resources into a Manhattan storefront and hired a designer to help his wife. Before Melissa Tiefer, now two, was born, the Lady Madonna Boutique was ready for opening-day ceremonies-which included a buffet of pickles and ice cream and an array of statuesque, round-bellied mannequins...
...first appraisal I could think of no common factor among these films. As I look back, they seem to share a storefront determinism much in vogue today among tired philosophers and frustrated students...
...Yale Law School and living in an urban commune, Reich has ruled out careers in either regular law firms or most storefront legal-service projects because "they use law as an instrument of confrontation, not conciliation." He talks of "delegalizing" society so that people can resolve conflicts without lawyers?as in no-fault auto insurance systems. To get such ideas across, he has joined law and business students at Harvard and Yale in starting a "public policy union" to work with city officials and state legislators on social problems. He plans to get involved in Senator George McGovern's presidential...