Word: ghettos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Colorado College students called cadets at the nearby Air Force Academy "zoomies" or that the way to end a conversation you no longer had any interest in was to flip a palm toward the speaker and say, "Talk to the hand." If I'm desperate for the latest ghetto slang these days, I'm reduced to lurking on the subway near clots of beautifully turned-out white boys who are trying to sound like cool dudes as they chat on their way to expensive private schools...
...screenplay was originally written entirely by Marx but the main characters' "ghetto lingo" lacked the ring of truth, an authenticity which Novak brought forth from his Newton, Mass. roots. Novak plunged right to the heart of the film which he claims is actually all about caring. "The kids care so much about a joke that they're willing to kill for it. I would care that much." He reconsiders, "I wouldn't kill," he says, "but I would care." Eager to shoot the revamped script, the two roommates joined Harvard-Radcliffe Television's movie-making branch, the Filmmakers' Network, which...
...fundamental structural disparities that 300 years of racism created. They constitute an enormous gulf in the quality of life experience that blacks and whites are likely to enjoy. In addition, the black middle class remains heavily residentially segregated by race, typically living in or on the periphery of declining ghetto communities. Discrimination by realtors, landlords, lenders and insurance companies play a major role in perpetuating such segregation. Further-more, the black middle class must still struggle against a popular culture sickeningly distorted by rumors of black inferiority. Clear proof of this comes in the remarkable sales and on-going national...
...clothes in 1995 from a two-story walkup in Manhattan's Washington Heights, had no department-store distribution when it grossed $36 million last year and was commissioned to design a 20-piece collection for The Lost World. But more than half the new street labels aren't really ghetto startups. They're vanity labels from music personalities like Wu-Tang, Simmons, Shaquille O'Neal (who also has his own record company, TWIsM, for The World Is Mine) and Chuck D. It's a Disney-like cross-pollinating strategy that, if it holds, can only lead to Wu Cafes...
...Clinton's second Inaugural Address and this year's State of the Union speech. And, Penn also found, they were "quite open to taking another look at race in America." So he suggested creating a second Kerner Commission, the quasi-independent body appointed by President Johnson to investigate the ghetto riots of the late 1960s. It produced the oft-quoted line about America's being "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." But it also called for creating 2 million jobs and building 6 million housing units, not the kind of direction the fiscally conservative Clinton was likely...