Word: youthe
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...broken pieces of her heart, puts Revlon on everything else, and faces the world like perfume on shit with a fake smile and a false sense of security." Souljah envisions herself as a big sister, offering the guidance she asserts is so lacking for today's inner-city youth. Although occasionally didactic--most notably in the book's conclusion "Listen Up! (Straighten It Out)"--Souljah's passionate delivery and obvious identification with her stated audience save her from condescension...
Many consider "La Boheme" to be Puccini's best score, as well as the embodiment of verismo, dramatic ideals in which real people lead real lives that just happen to be tragic. The simplicity of this type of tragedy, as well as the idealistic view of youth and love, which appealed to late nineteenth-century audiences still appeals to modern ones. Aside from this opera, and a handful of others, only in recent years has the Lowell House Opera featured Italian works. keeping with this spirit of testing Mediter-ranean waters, this year's "La Boheme" courageously unleashes the amore...
...construction of the three-floor, $2.9million Area Four Youth Center in 1993 has helpedreduce the image problem of youths loitering inthe neighborhood's streets, residents...
Before the center's opening "there was no whereto go," says George R. Greenidge Jr., the center'sdirector of youth programs. "Families have alwayshad it rough in these communities. A lot offamilies don't have money...
Residents say successes like the youth centerdo not occur often enough...