Word: tribeca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SHOW: TRIBECA...
...ready for that word again. Tribeca, the first TV series from Robert De Niro's New York City-based Tribeca Productions, is sure to be hailed by critics as "quality" television. The term once conveyed innocent praise, but lately it has become freighted with sanctimoniousness -- a club to beat the heads of dopey network executives who won't renew Brooklyn Bridge. TV shows should not strive for "quality." They should strive to be good. Tribeca is a good show...
...dramatic black-and-white picture essay accompanying the story is the work of Kenneth Jarecke, who spent two weeks photographing the city. "I always thought I knew how bad New York was," says Jarecke, a resident of Manhattan's Tribeca area, "but I didn't really know until I started working on the streets. You see the garbage and the homeless everywhere...