Word: ghettos
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...back then, Beck looked cocky and stupid, wearing his cowboy boots and holding a ghetto blaster. There was a sense that we were supposed to be worried for him. He wasn’t in on the conspiracy. Now he’s an established artist, and a Scientologist. He’s on the inside of something, he’s got faith...
...Berkeley, Calif., and began talking about the things that mattered to him: race (assaulting the audience with the once taboo word nigger), sex and his own colorful, often tumultuous life. He re-created the street characters--winos, pimps, junkies--he had grown up with in the Peoria, Ill., ghetto, where his grandmother ran whorehouses. And he dragged the culture along with him. His comedy albums--starting with his 1974 masterpiece That Nigger's Crazy--were best sellers and won five Grammys. He pioneered a new genre, the feature-length comedy concert, with his 1979 film Richard Pryor: Live in Concert...
...minimalist interior await. Or there's 4X Gastraum, tel: (49-40) 4318 8432, an inventive seafood restaurant (and brainchild of one of Germany's emerging culinary stars, J?rgen Zimmerst?dt) that is rightly the talk of the town. If you want to fully appreciate Marktstrasse's progress from grunge ghetto to fabulous faubourg, just book a table here...
...strikes me every time that—well, I look at my demographic, and as a young black/Latino male, I have more chance of being there than being here [at Harvard],” he says. As the child of Dominican immigrants, raised in what he describes as the ghetto of New York City, Perez managed to beat odds and become a top student at Stuyvesant High School, a magnet school known for its academic rigor. At Harvard, he has dedicated himself to improving those odds for others, joining Fuerza Latina and the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP), where...
...protest, three tailgaters were arrested and others chanted epithets including “Go back to Africa,” “Go back to the ghetto,” and “Go to a black college,” says Wilson...