Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mitchell said there was often a correlationbetween unemployment and violence in a society. Hecompared Northern Ireland to urban areas inAmerica, saying in both cases it was necessary toshow people that they had a chance at a betterlife before they would work for peace...
...President through the rough sledding of the past year. But the issue now is not Gore's loyalty but his identity, so he rarely mentions Clinton directly. He is also branching out, morphing his well-known stands on the environment and technology into soft, warm pronouncements about urban sprawl, education, and, soon, aides say, health and elderly care. Says Edley: "He's working harder to explain to people why this matters to you and to the nation, and the still deeper message is to communicate why he personally cares about...
...went back to the remote reaches of her homeland--to the edge of Sichuan, near the Tibetan steppes--to make Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl. The film, based on Tian Yu, a 1995 novel by Chen's childhood friend Yan Geling, is about a naive urban teenager who, like more than 7 million other "educated youth" during the Cultural Revolution, is "sent down" to the countryside to be instructed by the heroic peasantry; instead she learns harsh lessons about the brutality of men in power. The authorities refused to give a permit to the project, so Chen shot without...
...Cincinnati should have the best chance of all her work of being built. The site is quite vertical, and Hadid's architecture is usually characterized by exaggerated horizontal plinths and floating fractured wedges. Her fondness for the stretch is expressed in Cincinnati partly by what she calls "the urban carpet": the street becomes the lobby floor, which slopes gently up and becomes the wall. It's also evident in the long, shallow staircase that slices through the building like a rapier. From this staircase visitors can get fleeting glimpses of the art from unusual perspectives, a pattern that's repeated...
Lipman began his Harvard community service during the First-Year Urban Program before orientation week. Since then, he has worked at homeless shelters such as the University Lutheran Shelter in the Square for programs affiliated with Phillips Brook House Association (PBHA). He also worked at the St. James Summer Shelter in Cambridge for two summers...