Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response, both houses of Congress have passed gigantic crime packages made up of dozens of measures in an attempt to stem the nation's unenviable reputation as a world leader in urban violence. Legislators' passions for the bill helped sweep in the ban on assault rifles as one more weapon in the "war on crime...
...health-care seminar in your home or office featuring experts from the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute and the Heritage Foundation...
Spike Lee is better at setting agendas than he is at making movies. The laudable intention behind Crooklyn is, he says, to move beyond "the hip-hop, drug, gangsta-rap, urban-inner-city movies," which he claims constitute "a rut" into which black filmmakers have fallen. He has a point, though some of his competitors' work (for example, The Inkwell) has shown more range than he cares to admit. What he does not have here is a movie that attractively accomplishes his goal...
...film composer that Blanchard, 32, is now reaching wider audiences. In the gangster drama Sugar Hill he uses the sparse, bluesy sound of a jazz quintet to underline the flavor of tragedy and urban decay that permeates the story. "These characters pull the trigger at the drop of a hat," says Blanchard, "so a massive score would have overwhelmed the starkness I wanted to convey." In The Inkwell, a coming-of-age comedy set in a beach resort in 1976, and Crooklyn, Spike Lee's drama about family life in 1970s Brooklyn, Blanchard sketches dreamy melodies with strings and piano...
JACK KEMP (ex-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...