Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flag-burning, school uniforms and V-chips seemed trivial to New Yorkers in the face of the big beefy issues of municipal bankruptcy, urban decay, and criminal danger lurking around every corner. Where campaigns beyond the Hudson strive for a vanilla homogeneity that does not offend or alienate any potential voters, New York politicos have never been afraid to muddy themselves in the racial, ethnic, and social divides within the electorate...
...using the media to mold his reputation as a 'ubiquitous action hero of Gotham,' and employing an utter ruthlessness in discrediting and attacking his opponents. If he does dominate at the polls in November, his strategy will become the definitive play book on how a Republican can conquer an urban, racially-diverse, Democratic stronghold...
Chuck D chronicled the history of rap since its inception in the early '80s, arguing that the emergence of black videos on television in the late '80s had the potential to unite otherwise isolated urban pockets throughout America, but that the white-controlled media "clamped down...
...single dad. An odd couple--she's the daughter of aging hippies, he's the son of rich conservatives. A wacky alien. An incorruptible prosecutor. Another single dad. A precinct full of hotheaded urban cops. As the new shows suggest, the broadcast networks are not exactly venturing into unexplored territory this season; in fact, they aren't even leaving the hotel. That's neither surprising nor necessarily bad. Lots of successful shows have followed the conventions of the sitcom or the police drama. If a series about a divorced father and his wiseacre kids is truly funny, does anyone care...
...Monday night, going head-to-head against CBS's almost identical fare. NBC's Monday comedies are probably more similar than any four shows that have ever appeared in succession in the history of television. Suddenly Susan, Fired Up, Caroline in the City and The Naked Truth all feature urban, single women who work in the media: magazine writer, marketing executive, cartoonist and tabloid-newspaper reporter. So far, the outcome of the Monday-night battle is still in doubt...