Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Making the System Work: Urban Violence and Legal Solutions. Featured speakers include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president and founder, National Rainbow Coalition; the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York; and the Hon. Glenda Hatchett Johnson, chief presiding judge, Fulton County Juvenile Court, Georgia. Preregistration is required. $55 for students. Call 628-1530 or 491-4401 for more information. Through Saturday...
Whether Diet Coke really turns into formaldahyde when warm, as reported in the "urban myths" newsgroup...
...want to make sure welfare is not a way of life but a way to a better life," said Mikulski, the ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Veterans Administration, Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies...
...most of the year, midtown Manhattan adheres to the fin-de-siecle urban ritual of a working lunch. But during Fashion Week, held in Bryant Park every spring and fall, the bow-tied and sensibly heeled easily forgo risotto on an expense account for Quarter Pounders on a crowded lawn. Dazzled by the chic, they perch themselves near the heavily guarded white tents where designers unveil their seasonal collections. The businessmen, of course, do not come because they are interested in Richard Tyler's position this year on velvet. They want to catch a glimpse of the shows' real centerpieces...
...refrain of the machine-gun beat. His voice is choked and unsure, perhaps the worst singing by Hendrix on record. But the warbling voice gives way to Hendrix' guitar which rings loud and clear like a siren, then mimics the sounds of conflict: hysterical sobs, helicopters, motorcylcles tearing through urban canyons, ghostly whistles, nightmarish soft tones bent with the whammy bar, a brief display of pyrotechnics and then silence as the song ends and the world becomes trite again. There is a beautiful moment of absurdity preserved forever on record after "Machine Gun" ends when a lisping voice intones...