Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...floor of a back room. We know that when a drug-addicted mother asks for help, as many mothers do, it is essential to provide the help she needs without delay, not after a waiting period of six months to a year, as is common in poor urban neighborhoods...
Today, a very large fraction of our undergraduates participate in voluntary service of some kind. Some of their efforts are as simple as the donation of time for cleaning up houseyards or painting fences; some are as complex as running a summer program for children in an urban neighborhood, complete with transportation, provision of meals and guarding the safety of children...
None of this should be of great concern to Glenn Bailey, who runs the Crossroads Urban Center in Salt Lake City. The largest emergency food pantry in Utah, Bailey's center fed an estimated 30,000 people last year, and is mostly supported by churches, foundations and individuals. Yet Bailey dreads the proposed federal cuts almost as much as the more government-dependent charities. "It's simple mathematics," he says. The number of clients will go up because "people won't be eligible for welfare at a time when they need [it]." If the other local food pantries, which rely...
...Hollywood in the 1940s; her adventurous vocals (in songs like her majestic megahit I Will Always Love You) have the grandiosity of a Spielberg epic. And her 1992 marriage to controversial hip-hop singer Bobby Brown--an unlikely pairing that has fascinated the gossip press--has some of the urban grit of a Hughes brothers film...
...Heat', his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America," says TIME's Richard Schickel. With what may be the best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking not only to revive the urban action picture but to make a subtler point about cinematic violence: "Throughout the movie, he gives us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen...