Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Order" at 7 p.m. Recipient of an Emmy for best news documentary, Frederick Wisman's second film documents police activities in the Kansas City district with the highest crime rate, exploring the modern-day role of the police in American cities, as a final resort in disintegrating urban neighborhoods. Objective in its basic approach, the film nevertheless conveys the filmmaker's concern for society...
...BOTTOM LINE: By lacing his small town twang with urban soul, Mellencamp brews an all-American sound...
...social conscience remains as keen as ever, but his small-town twang has evolved into a lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a country boy who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by the neon images and jukebox sounds of urban America, melding straight-ahead electric-guitar licks with the staccato rhythms of the modern melting...
...undertow" and declares, "Well, the deeper I drown/ Lord, the higher I'll go." The lyric, with its suggestion of cleansing renewal, demonstrates the essential optimism at the core of Mellencamp's dire vision and his faith in the healing power of music. By venturing into the urban wilderness, Mellencamp has discovered the core of the American soul...
...start a primitive commune in the woods of northern California. But he was a tinkerer, and in his spare time he managed to rig up a solar-powered television set so he wouldn't have to miss his favorite shows. Soon Schaeffer was selling solar panels to his fellow urban refugees at a time when, he recalls, "only dope growers could afford them." Today Schaeffer's beard has become a white goatee, and his Real Goods Trading Co. has blossomed into a catalog operation that is the country's largest retailer of home solar equipment. The growth of Real Goods...