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...problems go up, property values collapse and frequently no real jobs result," says EPA engineer Hugh Kaufman, a hazardous-waste specialist. In East Liverpool, Ohio, some local residents, aided by Greenpeace, launched a hunger strike to protest the start-up of a giant incinerator that promoters say could help uplift the devastated steel region by processing dangerous industrial wastes...
...BOTTOM LINE: A creaky plot, predictable characters, recycled pop tunes, instant uplift, no style -- how can it miss...
...seven writers, Tootsie eight, It's a Wonderful Life 10, yet each film summoned a seamless verbal style, abundant in wit. These commodities are out of fashion today. Sister Act could have been written by one guy who looked at old movies and decided they were about spiritual uplift made easy. If the picture in fact turns out to be a hit, Midler may be miserable, but the suits will be happy. It will prove to them that films needn't be written; they can be assembled like Lego blocks. To others it will prove that moviemaking has become...
Although we are not responsible for the subordinate position we occupy in this society, most Blacks are willing to solve their own problems. However, we cannot uplift ourselves when we are constantly affected by outside influences that effectively maintain the status quo, including the infusion of drugs and guns, severely underfunded and inferior schools, police brutality and general disrespect...
...focus is the uplift of the Black community," Minor says. "You're singled out to uplift the community from which you came...