Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bathroom of a Harlem tenement, Walter Vandermeer died last week from a dose of heroin. Some 800 others have died in New York City this year from the same cause, including more than 200 teenagers. What sets Walter's death apart is the fact that he was only twelve years old- the youngest child on record to die from heroin in the city. John Schoonbeck of TIME'S New York bureau had worked with Walter as a counselor at Manhattan's Floyd Patterson House, a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children. Schoonbeck wrote this report...
...underground newspaper Rat were something else. A memher of the radical Women's Liberation movement, she described marriage as a "corrupt institution" and opposed the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. "My old man" is what Jane usually called John D. Hughey III, 22, who shared a Village tenement flat with her and was also accused in the bombings...
...them stayed there less than a year. Arriving at the hospital was a shock for some. "I couldn't believe that I was actually in a mental institution," one boy said. "It was as if you had been slumming and suddenly found yourself living in a tenement...
...another summer has arrived, the most ominous fact is that many attacks are now consciously directed against people, not property. Sometimes it is a case of ambushes on police by small groups of black tenement tireurs. It is more likely to be a quick-draw response by blacks to what they consider-often with some justice-to be police oppression. Or else it is a shoot-out among militants or street gangs competing for primacy. A few years ago, the latter type of dispute was typically settled by fists and switchblade knives; now firearms are ubiquitous and fashionable...
...script, by Tina and Lester Pine, is not much more than a revival of the old tenement texts of the '30s. When it comes apart, it is repaired by the star -and by Miguel Alejandro and Ruben Figueroa. As Popi's boys, they are not kids but brittle, wizened old men who pay for survival in the slums with bits and pieces of their most valuable possession. For, as Popi sadly illustrates, the real crime on the streets is not riots or muggings. It is the stealing of childhood from children...