Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where do you start? Neither a criminologist nor a sociologist, Wilson said last week that his interest in crime came about "entirely (through) a process of drift." An expert on government bureaucracies dabbling in a social issue, he began to look at crime when he studied urban police departments because he decided the only way to understand police effectiveness in crime control was to study the nature of crime itself...
...With ample bank accounts from previous careers in legal work to ease the transition to private life, Carla Hills, 42, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and her husband Roderick, 45, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, are not pressed to make any decisions about their future. Says he: "The best guess about what we'll do is to take a [corporate] directorship here and there, wait for the kids to finish school in June and then probably head for jobs on one of the two coasts." They are considering a wide variety of offers from academic institutions...
...Tinkering. Gutman took his study only to 1925 and many experts insist that black family structure is still reasonably strong in 1976. For example, Sociologist Joyce Ladner and Anthropologist Carol Stack report that single-parent households among the urban black poor are often part of flexible extended families that protect the young and preserve family continuity...
There is, occasionally, a certain funky charm about Car Wash. One wishes that somebody had really thought about the thing and shaped it into what it might have been-a genuinely affecting, amusing slice of lower-depths urban life. Instead, the picture tries to get by on an unassuming, throw-away air-and ends up as an inoffensive disappointment...
...turns out to be much less engaging in execution than it is as an idea. Car Wash does suggest, though, that there are unsuspected film possibilities in observing closely the daily lives of ordinary black people. Despite the movie's devitalizing casualness, it is a relief to see urban blacks neither as superstuds nor as sociological case studies. One only wishes that Car Wash fully lived up to its good intentions...