Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technology. And a draft of a new national constitution for China introduced by Yeh hinted at wage increases and other incentives for workers, which Mao had opposed. Since coming to power, the troika has given some 20 million workers their first pay raises in almost two decades (though average urban salaries still remain in the $20-to $30-a-month range...
...might in fact have worsened. In terms of jobs, for instance, the prospect is much worse for blacks now than it was ten years ago, when the unemployment rate for blacks was only half what it is today. An estimated 40 to 50 per cent of young blacks in urban areas are out of work...
Everything of importance in Company emanates from the score, a barrage of acid gripes, ironic laments and anxious yearnings set to and in between the noisy rattles of urban chaos. Sondheim can pack a stanza with so much cynicism that beyond the wit and polish of the lyrics it becomes almost a cry of pain...
...Assistance to a bank in which Flood owned stock. A Mountain Top, Pa., real estate development called Crestwood Hills ran into financial difficulties in 1974: then it became part of a Luzerne County housing project subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was able to make some of its payments on a $3 million mortgage issued by the First Valley Bank, in which Flood owns stock. Investigators are exploring a possible conflict of interest in Flood's dealings with...
Paul Mazursky's best movies - Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love and now An Unmarried Woman - are bulletins from a combat zone. The battlefield is affluent urban America; the war is the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Mazursky describes the skirmishes in all their neurotic glory, tots up the emotion al casualties and tries to identify the survivors. He does so with both compassion and dark wit, and the result has been a remarkable string of films that document the changing mores of an exasperating decade. Indeed, Mazursky's social report...