Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Department employees, psychotherapists, teachers, bookstore owners, artists, musicians, editors, teachers, a minister, a literary agent, poets (one Pulitzer Prize winner), essayists, fiction writers, biographers and authors of scientific and medical articles. One classmate is an investment adviser; another advises in alternative dispute resolution; a third is an adviser on urban development. This list by no means includes all our jobs over the years...
Gates addressed the differences in computing and Internet experience between the "have and have not's" as well as rural and urban residents and the developing and developed worlds...
Today the networks are scheduling either all-white shows (the sitcoms Friends, Seinfeld, Ellen and Mad About You are set in urban centers, but the only thing black on them is the coffee) or, increasingly, shows with multiethnic ensemble casts, like the NBC dramas ER and Homicide or Fox's new sitcom Lush Life, which stars two female friends, one white and one black, as does ABC 's new Clueless. A significant number of minorities still appear on TV, but they are only intermittently at the center of the action...
...fall--nearly twice the big-network total. Some of them star familiar names like Sherman Hemsley, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Robin Givens. One, UPN's Homeboys in Outer Space, is a must-see for the high-concept title alone. Some are refugees from the Big Four: Moesha, an urban sitcom starring teen singer Brandy Norwood, was developed for CBS, but after the network passed, UPN put it on the air in January and saw it blossom into a moderate...
Economist Glenn C. Loury has argued that black Americans' chances of persuading the white majority to back aid to urban education, compassionate welfare reform and affirmative action depend on gaining their respect. And, as a high-ranking black official told me last week, "there is not a single member of the District government who commands respect in Congress. As long as Marion is the mayor, that is going to be the case...