Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the miners are working, they make about $55 a day. Living is cheap, by urban standards, in Cabin Creek: a three-bedroom house rents for no more than $185 a month. But wildcat strikes are frequent-District 7 walked out for ten weeks last summer over a reduction in health benefits-and miners generally save little of their earnings. "Sometimes you're high on the hog, and sometimes you ain't got nothing," says Jerold Hamrick...
...jovially lavish host, and the evening is like a rollicking party-a "rent party," perhaps, that Harlem Depression phenomenon where guests put a small sum in the household kitty and jazzmen improvised from midnight to dawn. There are 27 numbers in all and they compose an ebullient cantata of urban night music. The audience could almost sing along with Honeysuckle Rose, Mean to Me, Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, and that powerful elegy to black sorrow, Black and Blue...
...know the movement exists, and if she does it's usually greeted with suspicion and hostility," Daugherty says. She found few suitable teaching materials for her women's studies course at Morris Harvey. In Appalachia, "it's very hard even for college women to identify with materials from large urban center," she says...
...Mamet simply cannot pull it off. There is just not enough of a plot to give his idea any weight, and what little there is is far too flimsy to bear the tensions Mamet imposes. A tacked-on existential conclusion to a mundane drama about the values of the urban lower class is just too much of a contrast. Had Mamet stuck to one theme or another, the conclusion might have made more sense...
...looking through the classified ads." Morial is looking no more. Since his plight got some national press, the mayor-to-be has landed a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics, a once-a-week teaching assignment at the University of New Orleans, and an urban affairs consultant's post with a local TV station. "Being mayor will require that I work 20 hours a day," said Morial, when asked about his temporary three-job schedule. "It's good training...