Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood makes two kinds of Ireland movies--the working class urban fantasy and the fey rural fantasy. "Circle of Friends," the latest Irish presence in American theaters, divides its time between Dublin and the countryside, but the movie could be set in Poughkeepsie as far as the plot is concerned; in this formulaic love-story, the setting doesn't intrude for a moment on the predicatable progress of the romance...
...movie theatre. An arrangement of video screens flashes sequences of images. But these are unlike the slicked-up, fast-paced entertainment we're used to. This is much more serious, and much more meditative. The monitors show scenes of fields, woods, the Sides of stucco houses in an urban neighborhood, and a woman's voice utters excerpts from Heidegger's philosophical text, The Nature of Language...
DIED. LIEUT. COLONEL MATT URBAN, 75, World War II hero; in Holland, Michigan. Urban's World War II exploits across the European theater ultimately earned him more combat decorations than any other soldier in American history, including the Medal of Honor and seven Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat, like the bullet that tore out a vocal cord and left him raspy-voiced to the end of his days. He led a milder civilian life as a recreation director...
...government's obligations to retirees would exceed its Social Security revenues, leaving it without funds to continue paying checks to the current crop of retirees or to those nearing retirement who were counting on Social Security. "The system is obligated to them," says Eugene Steuerle, an expert at the Urban Institute, a middle-of-the-road Washington research institute. "Society does have this obligation...
Though we have met each of her characters before, Sister Souljah's No Disrespect offers a lens to the rhythms and realities of young Black urban life, making her characters believable and impossible to dismiss, even when they aren't pretty to look...