Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YEARS, GUCCI HAD BEEN descending from Riviera swank to Jersey gaud. Its overlicensed double-G appeared on everything from coffee mugs to ashtrays. Fake versions of its handbags were sold on urban street corners everywhere. Then, suddenly, it found a shoe that fit: a sexy, backless clodhopper that became the must-have of devotees of high style in 1993. Gucci went on a winning streak. By March 1995 its designer, Tom Ford, was electrifying the fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this...
...enterprise flourish in poor neighborhoods. Waters wants loan-guarantee programs that encourage banks to lend in poor communities. "People in our community have little stores,'' says Waters. "We need to multiply that thousands of times over." Kemp wants to eliminate the capital-gains tax for businesses that locate in urban-enterprise zones, where government offers tax breaks and other incentives to bring employers to poor neighborhoods. The Republican budget passed last week by the Senate Finance Committee contains $245 billion worth of tax breaks targeted largely to middle- and upper-class Americans. As Kemp grimly notes, "It does not include...
...nonprofit Urban Institute recently examined 51 programs aimed at boosting achievement among black youths. Its conclusion? The best results come from long-term programs with intensive (that usually means expensive) services that guide a child into adulthood. Richard Majors, co-author of the study, says; "Our research shows that young men who go through mentor programs and manhood-training programs have higher self-esteem and grade-point averages and are less likely to drop out of school...
...there, then I will have done my small part to help them achieve a better life." But the march has convinced Nelson that he needs to do more. By the end of the school year, he intends to start a program designed to help inner-city children cope with urban pressures...
...Pretenders, Hootie & the Blowfish, k.d. lang, R.E.M. and Lou Reed, all of whom will be heard on the show this season. Compiled in part by Friends executive producer Kevin Bright, a music buff with an 8,000-volume record collection, the CD reflects the sitcom's young, urban sensibility. "What I didn't want to do was just put out a bunch of songs haphazardly thrown together behind a brand name known as Friends," says Bright...