Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie might aim to be a Searching for Bobby Fischer in the Hood. But Fresh is so much more: a really good film, for a start, made with a subtle precision that suggests a Vermeer landscape of the ninth circle of hell. Fresh alchemizes the terrifying cliches of urban melodrama into annihilating poetry. A guarantee: the film's last shot -- just a boy's face, in ruins -- will break your heart...
...widespread too. As Jackson Hole builder Jacques Sarthou sees it, "You don't go into Beverly Hills and demand cheap housing just because you want to live there. If you cannot afford it, tough luck." But Beverly Hills is spang in the middle of one of America's largest urban bowls, Mr. Sarthou. It doesn't have to share with the majestic Grand Tetons, which don't leave a town much room...
...traditional black civil-rights organizations -- now that most legal racial barriers to housing, education and the political arena have been removed? "There is no problem in my mind justifying the need ((for civil-rights organizations))," says Vernon Jordan, the Washington power broker who served as president of the National Urban League until 1981. "But when you have removed the barriers, then you have got to figure out how to deal with the debris. We did make the wall crumble, but I am not sure we have effectively decided how to deal with the leftover from the crumbling wall." Other civil...
...Kevin Elders' mother fought back tears in the court as he was led away. The decade stint is the minimum mandatory sentence for the crime. Just days before he was arrested last year, the Surgeon General suggested that the legalization of drugs be studied as a possible antidote to urban violence...
...more for me and Time Inc. of what he does so well: represent us forcefully and eloquently in a wide variety of public arenas. A winner earlier this year of the magazine industry's highest honor, the Henry Johnson Fisher Award, Brack is the board chairman of the National Urban League, chairman of the Advertising Council and past chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America. He has maintained Time Inc.'s leadership and performance through a period of momentous change, and he has put the company on a steady course for the future. Don Logan has my mandate to build...