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Hard to Help. The most vicious irony of the situation is that these girls are not young swingers, but lost children in search of a family life they never had. Says Andi Stromberg, director of a private counseling service called Project Yes: "Most of these girls are looking for mothers or fathers-even if it involves a violent relationship. For many, this is their first sex experience." Adds Louise Cooper, a psychotherapist who has worked with runaways in the Village: "They wander around lost and angry, and it is hard to help them. There are almost no social agencies with...
...less bright than Malcolm could easily have perceived the racist nature of the system that put him in prison and locked his people up in the teeming ghettos of America. With Malcolm the realization was as unequivocal as the attack of a vicious police dog tearing at his leg. While in prison, Malcolm was introduced to the teachings of the Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad. The two corresponded, and upon leaving prison. Malcolm became Elijah's right hand...
...rather than complementing each other, with this addition instead become opponents in attempts to get across a masking tape line on the stage. When someone does succeed, a yellow light flashes on. This pattern of conflict, coupled with a great deal of unnecessary gesture, buries Beckett's originally spare, vicious play in a mass of directorial obfuscation. David Starr Klein as the Voice again gives the best performance; his reading has achieved the needed sense of frustrated desperation in spite of the direction. Joe Volpe plays Joe Volpe, and after two performances of the same sort of thing...
...maintiendrai. For nearly three centuries, Protestants have maintained in Ulster a political dominance that translates into advantages not shared by Catholics on either side of the border: better jobs, better houses, and a better future for their children. Distinctions of name, address and occupation in Ulster are subtle but vicious. Belfast's Shankill Road is definitely Protestant, the Falls Road just as definitely Catholic. Protestants dominate the police, transport and public service; bartenders and bookies' clerks are usually Catholic. Employers shy away from mixing men of different religions. "I don't mind personally," goes the usual explanation...
...international fraternity of hobos, who have worked out 40 or 50 graphic hints that they chalk up on fences or walls to guide those who come after them. The cat, for example, conveys the welcome news that a "kind lady lives here," while the canine image warns of a "vicious dog here." Other signs are a cross ("religious talk gets free meal"), two intersecting circles ("police here frown on hobos"), two wavy lines supported by a pillar and sheltering a small circle ("you can sleep in hayloft") and an indescribable squiggle that translates "food here if you work...