| 单词 | slum |
| 例句 | They took to the Kareh-Ariana hillside, living in makeshift slums, packed in huts, fifteen or twenty at a time. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He moved across the dangerous new frontiers of deep alleyways and roiling slums. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Most likely Father Jack had contracted MDR from someone in the slums. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “The city, the castle, the slums, the river.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z For a time, she made daily visits to the slums as part of a frenzied charitable activity, which gave her chronic bronchitis and brought no peace to her tormented soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who stood the best chance of contracting TB, which was usually spread by the infected person coughing or sneezing, lived in crowded peasant huts, urban slums, shantytowns, prisons, or homeless shelters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Because of him, a whole bunch of people got to get out of the slums. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The excuse given by the government was slum clearance, a smoke screen for the government policy that regarded all urban areas as white areas where Africans were temporary residents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, all but a few blacks living in Durham were consigned to slum life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I guess the easiest way to put it is, it became a slum building—a death trap—which was crazy because it was such a nice place when the Brysons had it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z When urban renewal tore down my parents’ laundry and paved over our slum for a parking lot, I only made up gun and knife fantasies and did nothing useful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By now he knew every street, every alley, every fence in all the sprawling slums of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She didn’t want anyone to know she had come from the slums. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It shunted onto a new series of tracks, dipping down to a barren zone of rail yards and slum shacks, before shunting again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I know now this place is called a slum, but for me, it was home. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I do wish this time you’d try to dress better while you’re home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are—ah—slumming.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Back then, more than five years earlier, the capital city was mired in corruption, with crumbling roads and buildings, slums in the middle of the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z You know—living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She mostly stayed home because she said the whole town was a slum and she didn’t give two hoots about it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t in a—slum” I choke out the word. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettoes, like animals. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Governor's own Law Commissioner going to the bathroom in an outhouse! If we wanted that sort of treatment, we could have stayed in a slum on the East Side.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z And then they hand out mandatory vaccinations to everyone but a few slum sectors. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It has made itself a home in the wild forest of our great cities, amid the rank and choking vegetation of slums! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z One of Socios en Salud’s first projects was to build a pharmacy next to Father Jack’s church, to dispense free medicine to the most impoverished people in the slum. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I saw clearly on the map that it is the biggest slum in Port-au-Prince. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z To Bull, it was as if Varney were an exiled prince slumming it among the foot soldiers of the world. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she liked the idea of slumming it? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They had stopped the spread of MDR in the slums of Lima, and now they would do the same for other parts of Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Eventually, the hot open slum gave way to cooler tree- covered lanes and large houses, with shacks around their edges and people going in and out. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Children from slum backgrounds are potential menaces to society. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They pump that virus into the slum sectors through a system of underground pipes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Housing projects were in need of repair, but compared to the slums of Port-au-Prince, Cuba looked lovely to me. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Nailer had expected Nita’s prissy distaste for the slums of the Orleans to continue, but she adapted quickly, with a fierce attention to whatever Tool and Nailer taught. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I even paid special attention to the slum areas, not that I expected Diego to visit them. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “You are impossibly behind, with no chance of catching up this year. And Lord knows what your schooling was like in the slum.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z After all, she was just another poor black woman struggling in anonymity to raise her children in the slums of Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z To take her mind oft things, she reverted to her old habit of saying the rosary in the slums and confessing her sins to Father Antonio. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I could tell that she was as surprised as I was to know that he was living in the slum building. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Maybe now that the job was complete and he was on his way to his share of the haul, Wylan was done slumming with criminals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Fifth Avenue and the slums grow ever more hopelessly asunder. Fifth Avenue despises the slums, and the slums hate Fifth Avenue.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Without proper sanitation, disease swept through Durham’s slums like an armed invader, carrying off the young, the old, and the weak. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Nothing familiar, not a traffic clog of yellow rusted buses or a water-logged slum of zinc shacks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Conservatives argued that, having welcomed blacks migrating from the South, these cities “were repaid with crime-ridden slums and black discontent.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was somewhere in the vague, brown-colored slums to the north and east of what had once been Saint Pancras Station. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Time and again he tried to drive home the idea that crime really begins in the slums, and that prison itself can’t cure it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a long, mostly grim trip past ugly suburbs, decaying industrial plants, slums, and vast rail and truckyards. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A separate territory on which we can lift ourselves out of these white man’s slums for us, and his breadlines for us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaz had seen enough slum dwellers seeking satisfaction in dark corners and alleys that the allure was lost on him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z These artifacts marked the room as headquarters of the Whitechapel Club, named for the London slum in which two years earlier Jack the Ripper had done his killing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Father had said the slums outside Léopoldville would be set right by American aid, after Independence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty cases represented about 10 percent of all active TB cases in the slum, about ten times more than might have been expected. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was like a punch to the gut, knowing that a girl born there could end up a common pickpocket in the slums of the Levee. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That same insistent pull she’d felt in the zoo had guided her through the lemongrass fields as the zoo’s towering brick walls grew distant, and the city of Lkossa’s outer slums rose to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “We’re going home in two and a half weeks. The last thing I need is to start something with a spoiled rich girl who wants to go slumming.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z All of these canal rats and slum dwellers had easily found their sea legs, used to hopping from boat to boat on the waterways of Ketterdam. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This dress could’ve bought a kid in the slum sectors several months’ worth of food. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Although the township did boast some handsome buildings, it could fairly be described as a slum, living testimony to the neglect of the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the other slum dwellers, none of the other scavengers and dock laborers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z We are just one step away from this life in a slum, all of us who live air-conditioned middle-class lives, she wrote, and wondered if Obinze would agree. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z While blacks were crowding into disease-ridden slums near downtown, whites were building mansions outside of Durham and enjoying the new luxuries bought with the tremendous profits they earned from cheap labor, black and white. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z My pop once told us at the dinner table it was a case of “slumming gone too far.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes watered as she emerged from the alleys of the slum slowly, adjusting to the new morning light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was close to the Chafu District, the city’s slums, and if he could just get there and hide until he was rested enough to travel to the Greater Jungle... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They look like the slums in Mumbai or the favelas in Brazil. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Paul began to worry that if drug-resistant bacilli were infecting people in the slums, how long would it take before the disease spread across all of Lima? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It hit the crowded slums of the Barrel hardest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Did you meet any resistance in the shantytowns or slums?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The mysterious merchling. I wonder what Van Eck did that was bad enough to send Wylan to slum it with us.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I was only fifteen, but I knew Chisamba Singles was considered one of the worst slums not only in Mutare but also in all of Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z White, working-class kids are as invisible in media and politics as the poorest toddlers in the worst slums. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is a spirited country, is pollution-free, and has no urban slums and virtually no crime. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z To Farmer, it wasn’t unlike the fate of Haitian peasants who left the central plateau and migrated to the slums of Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z His second-story flat afforded a view of the harbor and, off to one side, the tents and cardboard huts of a slum. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “We went all the way to a waste mart I’d seen before, but it’s gone—they’ve bulldozed the slums in that part of the city to build a shopping complex.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There was a pale moon that allowed me to make out in the distance the outlines of a wretched slum, with houses made of cardboard, planks, and corrugated metal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer was also appalled by the extent of the city’s slums. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z What fighting and killing I have seen have not been glorious but slum grubby. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Children from the slums were easy enough to entice away, but eventually people noticed, and the police were stirred into reluctant action. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z My mother locked her children in the house so we couldn’t look at dead slum people. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet it is also a place of rapid expansion and unlimited opportunity, irrigated by rivers of new money, "a smogged-out, prosperity-driven obstacle course... from which wads of possibility had tumbled down to the slums". Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-22T10:00:01Z And a bit earlier an urban artist, name now unknown, painted a crime-plagued slum neighborhood in Lower Manhattan called Five Points, home primarily to Irish immigrants and blacks, as a hell of depravity. Art Review: Metropolitan Museum of Art?s New American Wing Galleries - Review 2012-01-16T04:58:27Z The first is to include, with almost every analysis of a discrete slum or shantytown, a genial profile of one of its residents. Books of The Times: Want a New Life? Wait Here 2011-03-17T14:45:49Z Even where the actual creation of integrated communities is a long-term prospect, residents can revive their own slums and ghettos, attracting job opportunities to locate in closer proximity so that spatial disadvantages are minimized. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z Yet for all its isolation Amazonas is umbilically connected to Rio's conflict-ridden slums. Rio drug trade turns Amazon city into crime capital 2011-01-04T14:56:16Z Later, back out in the slums, the protagonist gets a chilling lesson in the dangers of her brother’s work for the local “Gypsies.” Review | A teenager meets the family she didn’t know existed in ‘A Girl Returned’ 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Speakers play recorded testimonies from campaigners, social workers, a bus driver and a policeman, who discuss Marseille’s shantytowns, slums and displaced populations, such as the hundreds still waiting to be rehoused after the 2018 collapse. At the Manifesta Biennial, a French City’s Tough Realities Go on Show 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z They are sophisticates in a slum, alienated from their families and frustrated by the feckless men in their lives. Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You've Never Heard Of 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Before Brooks and his generation, most ads were shot by out-of-work movie directors or photographers who didn't take the medium seriously; shooting commercials was seen as slumming it. Bob Brooks: the man who reinvented advertising 2012-10-03T17:46:42Z The theater crowd gets to slum it in a faux dive bar for “Murder Ballad,” a rock musical that mainly succeeds as an atmospheric exercise. The scene of the crime steals the show in rock musical ‘Murder Ballad’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Aerial shots depict this slum as a fetid, desiccated wasteland, in which the pickings are thin, even for scavengers. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z He was raised in a Mumbai slum and got into the movies aged 16, through his brother who was an on-set dogsbody. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z This ground-level report on gang life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro exploded with thrilling and terrible force. City of God: No 6 2010-10-19T10:49:00Z There was the human cost: the poor and working-class families uprooted from their homes on the West Side of Manhattan in the name of slum clearance. A Starburst Is Born: Watch the Building of the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Nearly 33 percent of Filipinos live in slums. Pope Manila Mass drew record crowd of 6-7 million: Vatican 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Jolie, a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency, told Vanity Fair she looked for her lead star in orphanages, circuses and slum schools. Angelina Jolie 'upset' over backlash to Cambodia film casting process 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The slum's stilted shacks are home to around 1,000 people, many of whom recycle rubbish as their only source of income. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The stigma of “slumming” in TV is pretty much gone. Woody Allen to Create First TV Series for Amazon 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z I wanted to look upon the concrete leprosy of the slums and imagine what it was like a thousand years ago, with snow-capped volcanoes visible through clean air and lakes gleaming in the sun. In Mexico City, Exploring a Volcano Sacred to the Aztecs 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z They are homeless, buffeted from their requisitioned house to an Irish slum, an experimental boarding school, a dilapidated farm, never welcome or secure. Tin Toys Trilogy by Ursula Holden – review 2013-01-19T19:00:08Z I Google so you don’t have to: A thieves’ kitchen, according to Merriam-Webster, is “a slum or other area harboring thieves where children are easily led into crime.” 'Downton Abbey' Recap: In the Finale, Mary Meets Mr. Handsome, With a Who Could-Care-Less Attitude 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Nothing if not timely, “Dheepan” follows three Sri Lankan refugees, including its title character, trying to make a home together in a dangerous French slum. At Cannes Film Festival, Good Sometimes Isn’t Enough 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Substitute Le Chat Noir for women, because women can slum it, too – though let’s be honest: they usually don’t. Forget cat ladies: the real tribes of modern dating, from fantasists to routiners 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z This biopic about Pelé, still considered by many the greatest soccer player of all time, begins with his childhood in the slums of Brazil and moves on to glory. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Then, because I lived in a slum, I caught loads of horrid diseases, which I then died of, in childhood. TV review: Monroe; Health Before the NHS 2012-10-01T21:00:01Z At the other end are 1930s tower blocks, built on the sites of old piggeries and Gypsy slums and still housing modern "undesirables". TV recview: The Secret History of Our Streets; The Strange Case of the Law 2012-06-27T21:00:01Z They lived in a small house down a blind alley in the Mahavir Enclave II area in the south-west of the city, a poor area of slum dwellings. Five years after the gang-rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, what has changed for women in India? 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z So the actor, who did a stint in rehab in 2005, is either slumming in Crazy Town or currently residing there. 2009-12-30T02:15:00Z “I was fed up trying to find a way to talk about identity, race and Africa in architecture that wasn’t only about poverty and ‘informality,’ a word I loathe,” a reference to slums. Setting the Stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Among the many fascinating narratives in the book, one that perhaps best captures the character of Mumbai concerns Dharavi, also known as "Asia's largest slum." 'Mumbai Fables': Gyan Prakash's fact-packed, rewarding history of the city 2010-12-22T22:06:04Z He said West Point was "a tense, grim, impoverished slum at any time" and is now entirely barricaded. Briton with Ebola virus being flown home 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z These include Slum Survivors, a three-part series that tests young people's resourcefulness in the slums of Lagos, Mumbai and Jakarta, and The Human Tissue Team, a two-part look at tissue donation. series 2013-10-23T15:41:20Z The filings listed several activities with virtuous goals: feeding slum dwellers; underwriting scholarships; paying people to collect trash. The Would-Be Prince of Port-au-Prince 2011-07-17T04:45:24Z According to the study there was evidence that the practice was driving hundreds of thousands of refugees into urban slums and squalid camps, causing unnecessary death and suffering, and angering the peasantry. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “You are now getting a flurry of landlords coming into the market who haven’t got a clue. It is a breeding ground for slum landlords,” he says. The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z "It's a slum, basically, run by two drug groups," she says. Cicely Berry, voice coach to the stars 2011-07-24T21:15:01Z MUMBAI, India — A fire is raging through a crowded slum in the Indian city of Mumbai where the child stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" once lived. Fire rages through Mumbai slum 2011-03-04T18:56:29Z JR is known for his monumental public photography projects, and this show tracks his work in the Gaza Strip, the United States, and the slums of southern Sudan and Sierra Leone. New York’s Reopened Museums: Where to Go and What to See 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” tells the story of a public housing project in St. Louis that opened in the mid-1950s, part of the postwar dream of replacing slum apartments with modern, affordable high-rises. | 'The Pruitt-Igoe Myth': ?The Pruitt-Igoe Myth? by Chad Freidrichs ? Review 2012-01-20T01:11:44Z Wartime poster designer Abram Games depicted the health centre rising like a gleaming vision of a brave new, -style world from the London slums. Finsbury Health Centre ? an expert's view 2010-04-12T19:26:00Z That was when city housing authorities designated the area a slum and targeted it for redevelopment. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z I have eaten it in Kibera, Nairobi’s sprawling slum, and noticed local residents’ distrust of me slowly shrink as my healthy serving did the same. Into Africa: 6 Vacation Ideas From Our Experts 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z But here's the scary part: most of this growth is happening in places where millions of people already live in slums. The urban age: how cities became our greatest design challenge yet | Justin McGuirk 2010-03-29T13:39:00Z Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, who may very well get another nomination for his work in "The King's Speech," is slumming here as the town drunk, and a not very amusing one at that. 'The Warrior's Way': Cowboys vs. Ninjas, oh my 2010-12-03T17:25:00Z Robinson was, like Curtiz, a foreign-born Jew; Rossen, a Communist, and Garfield, a progressive fellow traveler, were Jewish slum kids from New York City. ‘The Sea Wolf’ and ‘Titanic’: Fascism on the High Seas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z A century later, in the 1960s, a slum area called the Cass Corridor became the city’s primary residential art neighborhood, bordering the campus of Wayne State University. ‘Another Look at Detroit: Parts 1 and 2’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Guida finds a home in a vibrant slum, finds friends there, puts together a life. ‘Invisible Life’ Review: Sisterhood Is Stronger Than Patriarchy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z He returns there from his job — driving his motorcycle taxi up and down Rocinha, one of Latin America’s largest slums — to work at churning out 18 tracks and accompanying videos. Rap rhythm from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas causing a stir 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The camera shifts to electric train lines next to slums and the glittering skyline of the city lit up at night. ‘7 Prisoners’ Review: Survival at Any Cost 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z In the Global South, the same forces pull people off the land by the hundreds of millions, leading to poverty, rapidly swelling urban slums and waves of economic refugees. Unlike a globalized food system, local food won’t destroy the environment 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z More than half its residents then were Bedouins uprooted from the surrounding desert steppe, many of them housed in shanties and slums. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z On Tuesday there wasn’t that vaguely embarrassing feeling of an orchestra hall slumming it with pop. After Decades, the Philharmonic’s Hall Sounds and Feels More Intimate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z And then there was another conversation about slums and hunger and welfare and urban renewal. Teachers aren’t the problem 2012-09-05T11:45:00Z A sign posted at one of the demolition sites shows a rendering of the shiny Lincoln Center arts complex that will rise where the slums once stood. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z She has endured relentless harassment and survived suicide attempts; been shunned by family members, including her father; and lived penniless in a slum. After Making History in Bangladesh, She’s Getting Applause in New York 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Jolie, a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency, told Vanity Fair she looked for her lead star in orphanages, circuses and slum schools. Angelina Jolie 'upset' over backlash to Cambodia film casting process 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z “Revolutionary Optimists”:A documentary about children in the slums of Kolkata. Vintage sale and egg hunts | Weekend Preview 2013-03-27T21:06:12Z There has been so much debate about the informal city and the economic potential of slums that it is worthwhile recalling the people who live there and the challenges they face. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z His office is in the home, in the “cowmen’s slums,” far from the comfortable districts of the “shahebi,” the English. Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z I used to when I was younger, in what was then the slum of Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. Barry Manilow’s Bubble and a House of Whimsy 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Many of the once legendary slums have been transformed through some astonishing architectural gems, like the Biblioteca España, a hyper-modern public library and community space in the low-income Santo Domingo neighborhood. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z There is the former slum boss who painted his horses with stripes to resemble zebras, which he then rented, "along with a cart, to the birthday parties of middle-class children". Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-22T10:00:01Z This National Book Award-winning study of life in Annawadi, a Mumbai slum, is marked by reporting so rigorous it recalls the muckrakers, and characters so rich they evoke Dickens. 10 Best Books of 2012 2012-11-30T16:00:09Z In slums residents in tin shacks and plastic tents siphon electricity from the city grid with wire as tenuous as spider’s silk. The TV Watch: In Haiti TV Tries to Educate, With Mixed Results 2012-07-11T21:54:55Z I went on to read his short story collection, The Burn, and was excited to discover Lassies was not a one-off, not Kelman merely "slumming it". Taking another look at James Kelman 2010-09-21T08:34:00Z It was once believed that West had given the Kardashians an essential makeover, providing the entire family with the kind of cultural cachet necessary to elevate them from the slums of reality television. Kanye West’s Reality-TV Reckoning 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z We tried to find something cheaper farther out, but the places that we could afford turned out to be little more than slums, with schools that were truly awful. My sister’s husband screwed us! 2013-03-04T01:00:00Z But there's a darker side to efforts to prettify the city too, which becomes clear when we meet Sagede, whose job is to clear illegal slums. The Book Show 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z Many of the once legendary slums have been transformed through some astonishing architectural gems, like the Biblioteca España, a hyper-modern public library and community space in the low-income Santo Domingo neighborhood. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z In an otherwise nuanced book, Austen labels the social workers and officials who vowed to clear slums and house the poor as “do-gooders.” A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Malnourished children in sunlight-poor urban slums often ended up bowlegged by adolescence. Fool’s gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Despite the annoying hype and aspects of slumming, "Hopscotch" compensated with thrills, surprisingly few spills and astonishing instants of beauty. Classical music 2015 highlights: Female conductors, 'Hopscotch,' Dudamel — but about those parking fees 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z “I have an incredibly high tolerance for dirty dressing rooms, you know what I mean? I like slumming it.” ‘I’m Still Alive’: Sean Young Takes the Stage in ‘Ode to the Wasp Woman’ 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The desperate circumstances of the slums encourage the authorities to believe that children have simply run away. Indian child trafficking on the rise 2013-05-05T12:00:00Z It had an absurdist and knowing exuberance that appealed to both those who were intellectual slumming it as well as the mass market. Why Did We Fall for the Angels? 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z There's a lot of hand-held camerawork here, a lot of rushing and swooping through the crowded, volatile slums of Victor Hugo's 19th-century France. Review: Hooper's `Les Miserables' is relentless 2012-12-10T20:49:09Z The editors write: This National Book Award-winning study of life in Annawadi, a Mumbai slum, is marked by reporting so rigorous it recalls the muckrakers, and characters so rich they evoke Dickens. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: 10 Best Books of 2012 2012-12-07T18:31:03Z West Point, Monrovia’s largest seaside slum, serves as a microcosm for the fear and confusion that is gripping the wider community. Ebola: life and death on the frontline 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z The arrival cities that the migrants reach may be slums, but they can be vibrant and dynamic places with the capacity to allow people to prosper and to move on. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z The central quartet of actors are engaging and colorful, though among the leading men there is a slight sense of slumming. A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z In the faux slum village, the odor of genuine horse manure hangs thick in the humid air as roast ducks and animal hides bake in the sun. 'Marco Polo' brings the court of Kublai Khan to Netflix 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z These 12 horror stories about sex, death and the supernatural follow insatiable women, slum dwellers and dead children. New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z On a hill overlooking a middle-class neighbourhood and a hospital lies one of São Paulo’s slums – home to about 300 families trying to eke out a living in the largest city in Brazil. 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Nighttime excursions to Max’s Kansas City, a societal mixing bowl for artists, actors and slumming politicians, found her, she writes, dressing “like an extra preparing for a shot in a French New Wave film.” Patti Smith?s Eye for Fashion 2010-03-19T20:41:00Z That King writes about these things while alluding to Sontag and Updike and Penelope and Odysseus without once seeming like she is otherwise slumming is part of her achievement. ‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z In 1957 he joined forces with Tony Curtis on their first movie together, Mister Cory, starring Curtis as a guy who uses the path of a crooked gambler to escape the Chicago slums. Blake Edwards obituary 2010-12-16T19:36:35Z How does Lafayette even walk down the street in Bon Temps without being violently overtaken by every tortured sap wandering out of Sam's rental slums? "True Blood" 4x12: A sexy, bloody end to season four 2011-09-12T11:59:00Z The poorest of the poor — Masai women escaping polygamous menfolk or artisans from Nairobi’s chaotic slums — are making handbags for western designers to sell to the wealthy. Bags Made by Hand, in East Africa 2012-09-03T15:00:33Z According to the article, Jolie looked in “orphanages, circuses and slum schools” for children “who had experienced hardship” to audition for the role of Loung Ung, from whose memoir the film is adapted. Money 'taken from Cambodian child' in casting game for Angelina Jolie movie 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Set in a sprawling slum in an unnamed city in India, “Djinn Patrol” follows 9-year-old Jai and a group of friends as they investigate the murder of a classmate. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Gradually we piece together his history from his slum upbringing to his 15 years in the slammer and his period as a baseball star in a white sporting culture. Fences – review 2013-06-26T23:55:15Z If you have no clean water and live in a slum in Lahore, or you live in a slum in Delhi … life as lived is the same. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z Over an eight-month course the students – invariably poor from surrounding slums - learn English, self defence, CPR, communication skills, and obtain their first driver’s licence. In the driving seat: India's school for female taxi drivers 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Shakespeare’s Verona might not translate so easily into the slums of mid-20th-century Manhattan. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Especially when your fan base resides in the impoverished contemporary performance scene — as famous as you get, you’re still always going to be slumming it on some level. Dance Review: Jack Ferver’s ‘Mon Ma Mes,’ at Le Skyroom 2012-10-10T21:10:44Z We just slummed around in the malls playing video games. ArtsBeat: Jeff, Home and the Duplass Brothers 2012-03-16T20:18:47Z Shrikanth adapted the film, about a young orphan from the slums who strives to go to school and get an education, from his own short story, and also starred in it. Teenage flicks: the youngest film-makers ever 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z He turns into a drug-dealer in a slum, before taking revenge on the father who killed his mother. Another way to face reality, Venezuelans flock to theaters 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Such projects were designed by the government in the 1930s as alternatives to city slums. Kerry James Marshall’s Paintings Show What It Means to Be Black in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z They take two hours to go from the slums to get to the city early in the morning to make money. Li Cheng on making "José," an epic gay love story set in Guatemala 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Buried deep inside a labyrinthine Mumbai slum, a tiny lane has become the unlikely flag-bearer of gritty urban art. In Transit: Mumbai Slum Home to Artistic 'Beehive' 2011-05-16T10:00:42Z This was a slum school, built with Comic Relief money: spartan and still short of books. Why Comic Relief is still a cunning plan 2013-02-04T22:46:53Z Ellison’s notes reveal that he intended the project to address “the disparities in north and south Harlem, the disintegration of slum life and success of the clinic” among other things. Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, Artistic Giants of Postwar Harlem 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z I particularly enjoyed learning that a 45-story Caracas, Venezuela, project is now known as “the world’s tallest slum” because after the investors pulled out, squatters moved in. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The latter, a cripple, is also known as One Leg, and is famous in the slum for a sexual appetite her ageing husband can't satisfy. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z Yet millions of Jakartans also live in slums with pirated electricity and no running water. Burning bright 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Modern apartment blocks in Germany were contrasted with slum photography from the Lower East Side. These Obsessive Men of MoMA Furnished Your Modernist Home 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Gray said during the pageant that working in a Manila slum had taught her to find beauty in difficult situations. Philippines wins fourth Miss Universe crown 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z She grew up in "poverty park" in the slums of Liverpool in the 1930s. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z Once upon a TIME, there were two girls who lived in the slums of Naples. Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You've Never Heard Of 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z A basket-case economy left many living on just $2 a day while UN troops tried to control criminal gangs and keep order in the slums. Wyclef Jean changes his tune over run for Haiti's toughest job 2010-07-27T19:23:00Z Urchins hurl tin cans at each other in slum gutters, which they share with scavenging curs. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z When his girlfriend, who is popular and rich and slumming it, asks him what he wants to be when he grows up, he replies sullenly but not terribly convincingly, “Dead.” TikTok Made Them Famous. Figuring Out What’s Next Is Tough. 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Given the advantage over his siblings of some basic education, he migrates to a slum in a sprawling megacity. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-04-21T06:00:29Z It is in one of the poorer areas, although not a slum. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z They span the social spectrum, from the well-to-do Victorian gentlemen to the families who huddled together in single rooms during the decades after the second world war when the house degenerated into a tenement slum. Slave trader’s home, slum, des res: the stories of one house raise restless ghosts 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Bad grammar brings to mind Jarvis Cocker's advice to the slumming posh girl who wanted to do what common people do: "Pretend you never went to school". Why the fury at Lily Allen's Ivor Novello awards? 2010-05-21T17:12:00Z In its demystification of these youthful slum dwellers, the film makes their embrace of terrorism frighteningly comprehensible. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z The first five came from privilege, Baker from a slum. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-01T10:01:01Z But at some point during the early-60s, the Greater London Council deemed it a slum, levelling much of it to make way for purpose-built blocks under the guise of progress. TV highlights 06/06/2012 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z Their situations — the risk factors they faced — aren’t really comparable, any more than the artist’s first, funky Montmartre digs and an immigrant slum in Paris today are. Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z We were clearly entering a giant open sewer, as the people who live in the houses of the Belén slum along the waterway use it as a toilet. Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z At one point, a slum fire burned down his family’s wooden home. Tsang Kin-wah Channels His Outrage in a New Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Kibera in Kenya bears an unhappy reputation as Africa’s biggest urban slum. Cinemas in Africa – from cramped shacks to screenings in the Sahara 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Before volunteering with Me to We, they took a tour through the city’s slums. Volunteer Trips: Is Your Family Ready? 2012-08-10T18:45:32Z That’s when the neighborhood became notorious as Five Points, which Charles Dickens described as the worst slum he had ever seen. When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z And when she had real control over the slum, she could create problems in order to fix them – a profitable sequence she'd learned by studying the politician. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z It feels as if half of the town took a time machine to 21st century Charming to slum it in Sons of Anarchy, reminding us of that abject absence of climax. Deadwood is the best drama HBO has ever made – it must be revived 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Later, Mr. Havel explored other territory: the Faust story in “Temptation,” the effect of slum clearance on architectural history in “Redevelopment.” Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z "Position Among the Stars," which is set in the slums of Jakarta, and "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" also also nominated. "Bridesmaids" in, "War Horse" out of writers awards 2012-01-06T00:57:09Z On the first page, Josie sees herself in her own “personal slum,” and the language is so harsh that it’s hard to tell what we’re supposed to think of her. North to Alaska in Dave Eggers' new 'Heroes of the Frontier' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Next up: Cleveland, where almost every neighborhood in which I grew up is a slum, but regeneration is taking place from within toward the outer edges with a vengeance. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Almost without exception, every great actor has spent at least some time slumming it in films that don’t accommodate their talent. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z No one blinks when alternative-rock acts like Sufjan Stevens and Dirty Projectors work with chamber ensembles and orchestras in a manner that extends beyond luxurious window dressing for one, down-market slumming for the other. The String Quartet, Reinvented 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z She’s shrewd, but having come from the slums, she finds managing household servants rather awkward, and she’s ambivalent about life with the rich, powerful man who has made of Marx “something like a wife.” Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The age of mass production would create light-filled environments, sweeping away the squalor of urban slums. Designed to Help Uplift the Poor 2010-02-18T17:25:00Z Some critics say the films favored by festivals abroad tend to cater to a widespread perception of the Philippines as a bleak, impoverished place of slums, corruption and drugs. Filipino Filmmakers Shed Light on the Forgotten. They Hope It Can Last. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z But in the usual manner of hit-and-miss Web series involving talented writers and lots of slumming guest stars, there are worthwhile moments scattered throughout “Paul.” ArtsBeat: Watchlist: Online Funny No Easier Than Television Funny 2012-02-14T23:00:36Z For a story set in slums, that too is not high praise. Review: ‘The Letters,’ a Biopic of Mother Teresa 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z How dare a white band hit the jackpot by imitating a community whose own musicians were still largely stuck in apartheid-created slums? The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord 2012-01-29T07:13:50Z The Press Trust of India criticised the film for its "exotic India package – snake charmers in red turbans, magicians who say abracadabra and slum dwellers who speak pukka English". Midnight's Children film to be shown in India 2012-10-09T15:41:55Z In Dakar, Senegal, designers working with community organizers developed an irrigation system to recycle wastewater in the crowded slum of Yoff. Architecture: For Some of the World?s Poor, Hope Comes Via Design 2011-10-21T19:17:11Z Kai said he spent a night in an Australian hostel that was “like a slum,” with one small bathroom for him and 11 other guys. Haute Hostels Put to the Test in Europe 2013-04-26T16:24:14Z Middle-class Victorians took "slum tours" to get a firsthand look at urban squalor — some for philanthropic reasons, others for titillation. London's New 'Dirt' Exhibit Celebrates the Value of Filth 2011-04-12T08:45:00Z Elsewhere, Winter Of Discontent recalls the last days of Mubarak's Egypt and God's Horses charts the violent lives of Moroccan slum kids. This week's new film events 2013-02-02T05:59:01Z A highlight should be seeing the actual Five Points slums that Mr. Scorsese replicated so elaborately in “Gangs of New York,” courtesy of Walsh’s 1915 silent film “Regeneration,” which kicks off the series on Wednesday. Movie Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:08:12Z The two 14-year-old girls in the title story discuss the importance of big swimming pools and get their kicks by slumming with “the common people. The riffraff. The hoi polloi.” Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Collects Early Works by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Everywhere from the slums of Dharavi, Mumbai, to the streets of famous urban thinker Jane Jacobs's Greenwich Village, says Hollis, it's the city's inhabitants and complexity that encourage healthy street life, not its politicians. Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis by Leo Hollis – review 2013-05-04T14:00:02Z “Worryingly the evidence tells us there is a growing residual slum tenure for private rented-sector households on low incomes, whose needs are being neglected by policymakers,” says Rugg, from York University. The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr Potter, and what's wrong with that? Microloans in Hackney | Feature 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Dara's account, and those of other young women I speak to in the slum, reveal the trade's dehumanising efficiency. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z He believes the way they have addressed the problems of extreme population growth is a lesson for us all, especially now that half the world's population live in cities, including one billion slum dwellers. Welcome to Lagos: Nigeria's dirt poor 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z I write in Arts & Leisure about an ambitious and excellent design show devoted to what might seem like an unlikely topic: improving slum conditions in some of the poorest parts of the world. ArtsBeat Blog: An Exhibit at the United Nations on Design That Improves Slums 2011-10-21T19:17:22Z The British designer posed for pictures in the Kibera slum, where the gilded orbs that are her company logo are fashioned from metal scraps and recycled brass. Bags Made by Hand, in East Africa 2012-09-03T15:00:33Z But some international health experts have advised against the move, citing both practical concerns and disastrous attempts at the mass quarantine of the biggest slum in neighbouring Liberia. Ebola lockdown in Sierra Leone: nationwide three-day curfew 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Just a preppy slumming it for a week or two, a poser with mouth wash and loo roll secreted in his backpack. The sudden, gruesome opening of "Jaws" 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z In Islamabad, the hijra community is contributing towards the cost of a new mosque in a slum on the outskirts of the city. Pakistan transgender leader calls for end to culture of 'gurus' 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z The housing and infrastructure provided to them on Ebeye by the military is not much better than a slum. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z When a series of accidents forces them into the city — a squalid slum where packets of food are airdropped to impoverished residents — Niska is forced to give up an injured Waseese to the state. ‘Night Raiders’ Review: A Future That Resembles the Past 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The decorative arts and haute cuisine were flourishing in Paris in the late 19th century, but the era’s booming opportunities did not extend to its slums — nor to the majority of Frenchwomen. ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical Representatives of the proletariat, the slumming Socialists and the Park Avenue swells all have a lot to say, in what is sometimes very clunky, symbolically strained poetic prose. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z These photographs never glimpsed the alternative modes of life or illuminated the mutual aid and communal wealth of the slum. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Smith mentioned the billion people living in informal settlements, or slums. Architecture: For Some of the World?s Poor, Hope Comes Via Design 2011-10-21T19:17:11Z It’s like looking down / From long French windows at a provincial town, / The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad / In the evening sun. The Rich in Fiction 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Naturalism meets melodrama in this harrowing, hectic tale of a lost boy’s adventures in the slums and shantytowns of Beirut. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Crucially, he managed to persuade the great stage and film actor Alec Guinness into slumming for the BBC. ‘The Night Manager’ Brings John le Carré Back to the Small Screen 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Nicholson and his London colleagues, slumming it in the wilds of Cornwall, aspired to some kind of back-to-nature vision and supposedly more authentic aesthetic. This week's new exhibitions 2011-03-26T00:07:01Z Ms. Donoghue describes him as being not an angelic creature roaming an idyllic country landscape but a “lumpen-headed goblin” tied to a crib in a filthy urban slum. Books of The Times: In ‘Frog Music,’ Emma Donoghue Delves Into Unsolved Crime 2014-04-07T20:53:50Z This extraordinary moral inquiry into life in an Indian slum shows the human costs exacted by a brutal social Darwinism. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z The teachers, a reporter wrote in 1937, “prefer slum neighborhood classes because they are ‘much more interesting.’ Antiques: 1930s Children?s Art on Display in SoHo 2011-01-20T22:50:27Z The orchestra managed its accompaniments with aplomb and with no sense of slumming. New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Even when he is slumming, Cage can inject some life into Walter by acting out, but when he lectures Buddy about death and gratitude, it’s a snooze. Nic Cage's "Grand Isle" falls short of the Southern Gothic crazy it promises 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Stewart Brand was talking about how brilliant it is that people get by in slums on an informal economy. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z Guilt of the sort that had overcome the previous slum boss was an impediment to effective work in the city's back channels, and Asha considered it a luxury emotion. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z I opened it, and the very first paragraph said something like, "I didn't mean to work for the royal family. I wanted to work with poor children in the slums of Edinburgh." Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Some 136 million people live in a place the size of Florida, occupying every conceivable corner, from city slums to the perilous slopes of 44 volcanoes. Lost in Java 2011-05-06T20:26:42Z The client’s father called the area the grand boulevards, invoking Haussmann, the 19th-century French official who, in service of Louis Napoleon, remade Paris by razing slums and forcing out the poor. ‘Azor’ Review: A World on Fire, Discreetly 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z On reflection, Haggis says he's not sure what initially drew him to Haiti, other than a simple curiosity about life in the slums. Hollywood stars lend a hand for diverse charities 2010-07-19T01:57:00Z “I lived in all of Brooklyn’s best slums.” 2010-01-29T05:49:00Z I looked at vernacular images, collections of photographs in municipal archives, photography anthologies, documentary surveys of the slum. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z But then I graduated from high school, and after a year slumming in a community college I worked in a cannery in Alaska. I can’t leave the house 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z A young girl practises violin at home in a slum area of Caracas. José Antonio Abreu on Venezuela's El Sistema miracle 2012-06-14T19:00:02Z The Paradise Club is a black-owned business in a black neighborhood, and Blue’s chance to sell arises because of the new mayor’s plan to clear the slums, thereby ridding the city of “blight.” Review: ‘Paradise Blue’ Rekindles Racial Drama in 1949 Detroit 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Experts today predict that three-quarters of the world’s population will be urban by 2050, a third living in slums, mostly in the so-called global south that includes Latin America. Review: ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980’ at MoMA 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z To many, it is synonymous with bleakness, instinctually associated with slums, delirious traffic, Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying and weary rickshaw pullers. T Magazine: Kolkata, India's Cultural Bedrock 2011-11-17T22:30:42Z The two dancers were chosen from the school’s hundreds of students not only for their promise but because they lived in the favelas, Rio’s notorious slums, and faced extra challenges of class and race. | 'Only When I Dance': Inspiration Through Movement 2010-07-01T22:10:00Z But it’s tough to tell whether the band is playing at the outer edges of its capacity or slumming. Music Review: Sweet, Dreamy Nibbles From Band With Teeth 2011-01-19T23:34:30Z “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s poetic triptych of queer black manhood in the slums of Miami, isn’t didactic; it simply breathes in the fears and desires of its hero, Chiron, and asks us to taste his oxygen. The Oscars and the Election 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z I was just slumming it, having fun, and I don’t think that’s fair. Peter Dinklage Is Still Punk Rock 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z In the popular Indian media, Dharavi has become immortalized as Asia’s largest slum. In Transit: Mumbai Slum Home to Artistic 'Beehive' 2011-05-16T10:00:42Z There is some amusement in seeing future Bill and Ted slumming at an open mic night, or as bulked up and tattooed prisoners. The latest "Bill & Ted" adventure is more bogus than excellent, despite some chuckles 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Across South Korea the divide is visible as some of the old neighbourhoods of crumbling brick slums contrast with the gleaming high-life of Seoul’s more swanky spots. 'Parasite' reflects deepening social divide in South Korea 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Ganguly, formerly a Calcutta attorney, now devotes his life to working with slum children in India. ‘The Revolutionary Optimists’: a story of hope in Indian slums 2013-03-28T22:00:43Z A common feature of the press coverage of these class tensions was the dramatization of Whitechapel itself — the cliché of the slum ghetto, a trap of misery and hunger. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z The new episode "Powerless" on "Independent Lens" looks at electricity theft in a slum in India. TV This Week Nov. 2 - 8: The Game, 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Later, as an older teenage vagabond slumming through Europe, I’d regularly pop in on relatives in Norway. How travel pried open my hometown blinders 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z For Jessa and the other slum children, it opened a whole new world. From a Manila slum emerges an unlikely ballerina 2012-12-26T08:31:04Z Jack Rose is catapulted from an East End slum to train as a rent boy, going on to become one of the shadowy "panthers" with which Oscar Wilde surrounded himself before his disgrace. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z She had had it with slumming down with Joseph, her socially low-on-the-totem-pole husband by aspiring to godhead. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Today, 11 million people in Britain rent privately in an overlapping series of sub-markets, ranging from slums to luxury housing. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z This Oscar-nominated drama by the Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles takes place in a slum outside Rio de Janeiro where boys vie for the chance to join armed gangs and lead a life of crime. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Better Things’ and ‘Riviera’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The moon above and the slight chill of the night breeze, along with a real-life homeless straggler or two carting his belongings in the vicinity, lend this artfully arranged Aztlan slum an even wilder edge. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Even if it would still be nice to see Spider-Man himself slumming it with the lowlifes. With its new 'Spidey-verse', can Sony triumph as the anti-Marvel? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z His film tells the story of one family and how they are struggling to survive in the slums of Caracas, 10 years after they lost their home in Vargas. Disaster movies 2011-02-09T10:03:33Z Is it jarring to go from a staying in a big trailer on a studio set, to slumming it at a Holiday Inn Express when you work on an independent film? Emily Blunt on taking a hit, training with the FBI and her Taylor Swift moment 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z However, others believe preserving Lutyens' Delhi in its pristine state would be wrong in a seething city where millions sleep in crowded slums. Land famine threatens Delhi's colonial heritage of Lutyens architecture 2013-04-21T23:00:03Z Provided with no public amenities, these new migrants built makeshift homes in unhygienic and polluted slums. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Supporters of the ballads say they provide an outlet in Colombia’s folk culture, especially in urban slums and remote rural areas, for subjects that some would rather shun. Ballads Born of Conflict Still Thrive in Colombia 2010-09-04T20:10:00Z The other building, for cholera patients, is a single-story pavilion on a separate Gheskio campus, across a busy, rutted road from one of the largest slums in this city, whose residents it mostly serves. In Haiti, Battling Disease With Open-Air Clinics 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Like realising our first home, where I lived until the age of seven, was nothing short of a slum: eight of us slept in two tiny, damp bedrooms. ‘Being poor is not inevitable or due to personal flaws. I know, I’ve been there’ | Mary O’Hara 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z And what an informal economy is like is the economy in a developing country slum. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z Given that half of the world's population now lives in cities, and a third of those in slums, Aravena's practice, Elemental, is one of the most relevant architectural firms working today. Why a folding plug won last night's design awards | Justin McGuirk 2010-03-17T13:08:00Z This book is knowledgeable about Mumbai’s slums, where, for example, over the boys’ house, “a vermin cavalry went galloping over the corrugated tin roof.” Review: ‘Selection Day’ Presents India as Seen Through the Wickets 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Social investigators had been taking readers into London slum life for well over fifty, and a few before that. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z The last stanza turns from Whitman and water works to the social context: slums, disease and poverty. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z Jivan is a Muslim girl who dreams of escaping the slums where she lives but gets implicated in a terrorist plot. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Father Bergoglio supported the work of those referred to as slum priests, but warned the two of the dangers inherent in their ministries. 'The Great Reformer': Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Armies of environmental health inspectors declared war on the old slums with compulsory purchase orders, their miserable stigmatised occupants bulldozed off to remote soulless estates to die of loneliness and boredom. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z One chapter focuses on subsistence living, another on slums. These Photographs Show What Life Is Like on $1 a Day 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Visiting her brother at Harvard in 1904, Rankin witnesses the tenements and slums of a crowded city. A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Architecture and engineering helped eradicate these diseases ages ago in cities like London, Paris and New York, which constructed sewers and hospitals, while clearing slums. In Haiti, Battling Disease With Open-Air Clinics 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Most incongruous of all is that though the theater is opulent and its patrons affluent, the children are from the slums. Television Review: ?The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical? - Review 2011-11-22T23:20:20Z In response they devise a pervasive and brutal system of extortion of slum residents that generates a lot more money and involves powerful politicians. | 'Elite Squad: The Enemy Within': ?Elite Squad: The Enemy Within,? From Brazil - Review 2011-11-10T23:40:07Z It's a great place and I don't know if I was slumming. Carla Hall corrects the record with “Soul Food” 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Far from utopias, the communities mimic their life-size consumerist counterparts with chain restaurants, while the poor are walled off in a slum. 'Downsizing' puts microscope on environment, immigration and humanity 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Afterwards, Budhia was awarded a scholarship to a private school, living in a government hostel during the week and joining his mother in the slum at the weekend. TV review: Leaving Amish Paradise; Kidult: Marathon Boy 2011-03-16T23:30:00Z Many of the pictures in “Civilized” depict slums or shantytowns, and even the most orderly scenes in the Flashpoint Gallery show include an irrational human element. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Her parents, Dolly and Tom Griffiths, originally from Bow, eventually joined the postwar slum clearance diaspora in Dagenham, Essex. Gilda O'Neill obituary 2010-10-06T17:06:00Z The opposite is also true — “the wrong side of the tracks,” “the slums.” Ten books to read in April 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Not once do you get the sense she is slumming. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Episode 6 Recap: Midnight Descending 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The Five Points, located in Lower Manhattan, was one of the worst slums America had ever seen, and its violent conditions inspired a Martin Scorsese movie, “Gangs of New York,” set in 1846. The Producer Has a History. So Does This Civil War-Era Musical. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Fisher was born in Philadelphia, the fourth of seven children of Russian-Jewish immigrants who worked in tailoring sweatshops and lived in a slum. Eddie Fisher obituary 2010-09-24T16:11:00Z “We left the slum every few weeks to take a good long bubble bath,” he told Metro, a French magazine, in 1986. Dominique Lapierre, 91, Dies; Popular Author Wrote ‘Is Paris Burning?’ 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z She wants to leave behind the slums and poverty of Nairobi for the United States, a country she naïvely believes to be without human suffering, but mostly she wants to get away from her mother. The Quest for Identity and Independence 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z I don’t want to go slumming in somebody else’s pain just to write a book. The Chilling Truths Behind Patricia McCormick’s YA Novels 2012-07-06T14:00:51Z I had no experience of gay people, or Russian Jewish people, or the slums of the Lower East Side bohemia; that was all new to me. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and the voice of the Beats 2011-02-23T20:30:00Z “Race” begins in a miserable slum in Cleveland, where the Owens family moved from Alabama when Jesse was 9, and follows him through high school to Ohio State University. Review: ‘Race’ Chronicles Jesse Owens’s Rise to Olympic Glory 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Developers who built the road hoped to attract wealthy residents, but the presence of a nearby Gypsy camp ensured that part of the street became a slum, with multiple occupancies in each house. TV highlights 27/06/2012 2012-06-26T18:59:01Z Deep in this Kampala slum at a tin-roofed collection of houses known as Wakaliwood, is the engine of Uganda's tiny film industry and the source of $200-budget movies and a glimmer of fame. In Uganda, a filmmaker makes gripping $200 action flicks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Osnes brings to mind a Bennington girl slumming with rough trade on her semester off. | 'Bonnie & Clyde': ?Bonnie & Clyde,? With Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan - Review 2011-12-02T03:37:52Z He and Magnani worked together in vaudeville in the 1940s, and seeing them interact, especially in a scene where they pretend to be slumming movie stars, is a treat. 'The Passionate Thief' as laugh-out-loud funny now as in 1960 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Sure, there's a show-offiness to this kind of artistic slumming - a self-consciously understated scenery chewing that occurs in a story about damaged people - but that's certainly preferable to flowery exclamations of hope. Review: Cotillard stars in raw `Rust and Bone' 2012-11-20T22:54:11Z What concerned him more was the pejorative nature of the word “slum” and how outsiders perceived Dharavi, an area smaller than New York City’s Central Park but where about a million people live and work. Mumbai, a City Both Uplifting and Heartbreaking 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z He is the youngest marathon runner ever – he started aged four, after he was plucked from an Indian slum by his coach. Tonight's TV highlights: Great British Food Revival 2011-03-16T00:05:01Z It is a place of crowded slums but also mansions, glittering malls and lushly landscaped private schools — all a lot closer than you might expect. 'Lost and Found in Johannesburg' maps the growth of a writer and nation 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The musical journey continues to Johannesburg, South Africa, where a young black trumpet player in the slum of Soweto is juxtaposed with a white woman violinist living in a gated house. Gilberto Gil takes roadtrip to find musical origins in "Viramundo" 2013-04-22T10:06:27Z “The economy of the slums is in a large part recycling,” Ms. Westwood said. Bags Made by Hand, in East Africa 2012-09-03T15:00:33Z Indeed, it is a mark of Israel's tolerance that it allows some so-called Palestinians to live in the Gaza slums. The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips 2010-06-14T20:59:00Z Their match is blocked, oddly, by the economics of slum housing. Review | Two Irish comedies shine in the heart of the city 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z “There needs to be a slumming element,” Mr. Young said. London?s Pop-Up Restaurants Let Rising Chefs Shine 2010-10-05T23:47:00Z More than just upgrading housing and infrastructure, the strategy in Bang Bua included low-interest loans and renewable 30-year leases for slum residents, making them, for the first time, legal stakeholders in their properties. Architecture: For Some of the World?s Poor, Hope Comes Via Design 2011-10-21T19:17:11Z A photo exhibit and lecture series about the slums of Janta Colony, in Chandigarh, India, is open at the University of Washington through June 24. UW exhibit, lectures illustrate ills of slum in India 2012-06-08T22:37:02Z Mathangi Subramanian’s novel, “A People’s History of Heaven,” follows the lives of five girls and close friends as they fight to save their slum on the outskirts of Bangalore from demolition. In This Novel, the Fate of an Indian Slum Is in the Hands of Its Women 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Half of them live in slums, and according to a 2012 study, there is just 1.1 square meters of open space for each resident. In space-starved Mumbai, docklands provide room for a view 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Hall was raised “in the slums of the north end of Toledo” during the Depression. Philip Baker Hall is your favorite actor whose name you can’t quite place 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Peabody Southwell not only was a riot slumming as over-the-top night club singers, but also designed the show’s stylishly witty costumes. Bernstein by the Bay: S.F. Symphony brilliantly delivers 'On the Town' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Discussing the composition of “them,” in an author’s note, Oates writes that she deliberately understated the “sordid and shocking events of slum life” in the novel for fear that “too much reality would become unbearable.” Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z I was 21, came from the slums and I'd never really met people like this – highly educated, upper-middle-class people talking with patrician voices about the working classes and the struggle. Appreciation: Corin Redgrave, 1939-2010 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z Pin is a first-rate heroine, aware of the vulnerability of her sex to the chaos and dangers of both the amusement park as well as Chicago’s slums. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Its grim slums, incessant Ambassador taxi horns and unpleasant street odors tested us at first, but we eventually developed a great affection for the place. T Magazine: Kolkata, India's Cultural Bedrock 2011-11-17T22:30:42Z Yet part of the film's charm is in seeing Deneuve, Depardieu and company not slumming, exactly, but relaxing into the artifice of the material. Catherine Deneuve: A real dream of a woman 2011-04-08T18:48:00Z Although not technically impoverished by modern Indian standards, the 3,000 slum dwellers live in grimy, patchwork quarters next to open sewers. 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers': Elusive justice in a Mumbai slum 2012-02-08T22:13:05Z For artists who grew up in the area, performing in La Perla, the island’s famous slum — located on a stretch of rocky coastline in Old San Juan — is a rite of passage. Myke Towers Is Seizing His Moment 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Many of Brazil's exported films have been set in Rio de Janeiro, with its urban slums and breathtaking natural backdrops, but the feature closing this year's festival, "Brazilian Western," focuses on the modern capital, Brasilia. Brazilian cinema brings guns, coke, poetry to London 2013-09-24T15:10:02Z It was a world of slum landlords, gang warfare, race riots and, it must be said, a strong sense of community. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-11T15:00:01Z "In the slums of Nairobi, there are murals of Marley and people quote the lyrics to you." 'Beyond' famous 2011-04-08T13:58:07Z “I was so proud but my mum told me it was horrible. She said it looked like a council house and asked why I wanted to live in a slum.” ‘I wish I’d told Dad how much I hated him’ – when children ditch their parents 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z And Hepburn slums it so sweetly: "Is this the elevator?" she enquires, stepping into his apartment. Roman Holiday: No 16 2010-10-16T10:39:00Z Nucky could be in any bar in New York or New Jersey right now, but he chooses to slum it at this claustrophobic hell hole — maybe to punish himself for what has happened to Sally. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: No Exit 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Along with goths, drag queens, rockers, leather boys and slumming socialites, the Limelight became the home to the ’90s club kid moment. Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The estate, begun in 1946 and completed in 1963, was like a "palace" to those who remembered the East End slums, remembers one participant. Tom Hunter: A Palace for Us ? review 2010-12-09T17:03:00Z Four years later he appeared in his only feature film, One Third of a Nation, a leftwing work about a slum landlord being converted to the cause of decent public housing. Sidney Lumet, giant of American cinema, dies at 86 2011-04-09T23:07:05Z He even missed the caucus meeting, because he was in Epworth, a slum east of the city, collecting some MDC women who had been badly beaten. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z He was raised by his strong-willed grandmother in a St. Louis slum after his alcoholic mother gave up her children and his father abandoned the family. Robert Guillaume, star of TV's 'Benson,' dies at age 89 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Born to Muslim immigrants, with a “brutal upbringing” in a Paris slum, Tahar appropriates the background of a Jewish law school acquaintance, severs contact with his family and starts his career in America. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Banton's team will try to prove the singer, who rose from the slums of Kingston to massive success in the 1990s, was a victim of entrapment. Reggae Star Buju Banton Faces Drug Trial in Fla. 2010-09-19T18:38:00Z As the “upstairs” drama ends, confusion sets in there too — about the real motives of Pandora, and the contrivances that bring her from the slums into a swanky Manhattan high-rise. This dramatic ‘Equation’ doesn’t quite add up 2014-01-30T21:01:10Z I would hike through slums where street merchants sold black magic spices, then change my shirt to sip $15 cocktails in the neon glamour of a Hard Rock bar. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z When they describe the “uncomfortable” conditions of Third World countries, the film offers images of slums. ‘A Towering Task’ Review: Peace and Its Discontents 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The orchestra is part of the Ghetto Classics music education program, which benefits youth in the slum of Korogocho and other poor areas. A Classical Music Lover Changes Kenyan Children’s Lives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I go up into the mountain slums and give bubblegum to the children. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z Will the two boys ever escape the slums? Broken Glass by Sally Grindley - review 2012-07-25T08:00:00Z In the statistical chart, the social survey, and the slum photograph, she seemed so small, so insignificant. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Photograph: David Levene In the 1960s, local authorities and urban improvers looked at Victorian terraces and declared them slums. Robin Hood Gardens: You're making a big mistake... 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z The Billy Elliot director spent months filming in some of Rio de Janeiro's toughest slums - while dodging bullets from warring militia - to show hope and faith amongst the city's rubbish dumps. Daldry talks hope among the Trash 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z There’s the fact that she refers to her minimally furnished Hollywood Hills home as a favela — a slum. The racially insensitive remarks by Kanye West collaborator Vanessa Beecroft that have the art world talking 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Ever one for the expansive gesture, Jean decided to spread a little joy for the children of Cité Soleil, the notoriously poor and at times violent slum in the capital, Port-au-Prince. A hip hop president for Haiti? 2010-08-06T11:52:00Z Two sides slumming it at the unfashionable end of an eventful North Group table face-off. TV highlights 25/07/2013 2013-07-25T06:00:03Z What was the point of this exercise, to take the kids slumming for an hour or two, to watch the freak show? Paul Ryan’s poverty tourism 2012-10-16T17:05:00Z Hull had been very badly bombed – it took more than half a century for the last bombsite to disappear – and despite the prosperity of the fishing industry there was slum housing all over the place. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z These are the new slums of Britain – a tenure of unsafe and unaffordable housing with few routes out. The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Located where African-American poverty was already concentrated, the Chicago high rises replaced barely habitable slum dwellings — wood-frame firetraps frequently without plumbing, heat or adequate sanitation. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z This amiable shows how they get there, trailing a ramshackle alliance of middle-aged paraplegics and street kids as they wend their way from African slum to European concert hall. Benda Bilili! ? review 2011-03-17T22:10:01Z Strong winds and delayed firefighting equipment resulted in an uncontrollable conflagration tearing through overpopulated slums and their mainly wooden houses. The Fire That Shaped London 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z And there is Anand Mehta, the unsuccessful businessman who buys a share in the boys’ future, raising them up from their squalid slum but entangling them in debt. Aravind Adiga’s Novel Is About the Game of Cricket — and Sexual Awakening 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Sandstorm by Lindsey Hilsum traces the history of Colonel Gaddafi's regime Mumbai's slums, the Iraq war and the fall of Colonel Gaddafi are among the subjects covered by the five titles up for the 2012 . Five debuts up for Guardian prize 2012-11-08T18:00:31Z In his research, Stockhausen said, he was struck by an image in a “slum clearance report” for the rezoning: an aerial shot with a giant red line outlining the neighborhood. When Production Design Plays a Supporting Role 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z A tourism app that evokes slums, starveling waifs, child labor, pickpockets, brutal jails and gallows might not be everyone’s idea of a good way to promote their city’s past. ArtsBeat Blog: An App to Take You Deep Into Dickens's London 2011-12-09T17:47:01Z In Port-au-Prince those in slums and tent encampments watch TV with power siphoned off the city grid. The TV Watch: ‘Regards Croisés’ Offers Haiti Needed Comic Relief on TV 2012-07-10T20:51:35Z I don’t see any of this stuff as slumming. David Fincher Tries Animation in ‘Love, Death + Robots’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z “The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy,” he wrote. Jacob Riis Photographs Still Revealing New York’s Other Half 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Their leader is an interesting character: a woman who rose from the slums of Mumbai to become a world-renowned expert in nanotechnology. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Some of it is set in India and involves a slum community’s herculean effort to achieve daunting global power. Books of The Times: Charlie Huston’s ‘Skinner,’ a Thriller With a Troubled Hero 2013-07-14T21:41:57Z The Casablanca precinct where Braude is embedded is in one of the city's largest slums, rife with poverty and crime. 'The Honored Dead': An immersion in Moroccan society, crime and justice 2011-08-10T22:22:03Z Eschewing the glamour, frivolity and fairy-tale endings of Bollywood cinema, the backdrop of "Titli" is the teeming slums outside Delhi where millions struggle to survive day to day. In break from Bollywood, India's Cannes contender tackles Delhi's darker side 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z I got the President and the former Secretary of State to do a tweet promo, so they are slumming it. Jordan Klepper has a theory on comedy: It's "baby explosions of humanity" 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z He started in Florida’s Carol City slums, and now he is releasing his seventh studio album. Rick Ross Reflects 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Timberlake's the wealthy heir Diaz's character pursues while he's slumming as a sub, and Jason Segel co-stars as a gym teacher whose advances she rebuffs. Diaz lowers school standards with 'Bad Teacher' 2011-03-31T13:16:16Z Boo's book, set in a Mumbai slum, is the story of a boy and his harsh and illuminating education in the consequences of crime or perceived crime. Erdrich wins her first National Book Award 2012-11-15T15:12:08Z The tropical U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is increasingly a backdrop in American and European cinema, standing in for Baghdad war zones, Brazilian slums, or cookie-cutter American suburbs. Puerto Rico basking in Hollywood spotlight 2010-11-19T15:19:00Z Depp isn't slumming, but even in a product such as this, the quality of the script matters. Yo-ho-hum for latest 'Pirates' 2011-05-18T21:10:00Z These are the “slum people” for whom Otto has such contempt. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Parris negotiating life on a £55 budget becomes a variation on the tasks in the Big Brother house, slumming it in Newcastle akin to surviving in the I'm a Celebrity jungle. Iain Duncan Smith is not the first MP to try living on benefits – others have failed before him 2013-04-02T13:26:51Z Add to that a handful of subplots involving India’s anticorruption protests of 2011, the conflict in Kashmir , a slum inspired by one of Dante’s circles of hell, a massacre of peacocks and a poisoned apple. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z And a concrete wall that is supposed to hide them from view: this is Annawadi, the Mumbai slum that comes vibrantly to life in this book’s pages. Books of The Times: Katherine Boo?s First Book, ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-01-30T23:08:37Z But there was no sense of slumming or condescension. Marc-André Hamelin Gradually Ups the Ante at Carnegie Hall 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Her ailment was caused because my parents were compelled to live in a disease-ridden mining slum at the end of the Great War. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z A silly but amusing yarn about an English dandy who takes charge of a weekly publication in New York and produces campaigning pieces about the slums. Tom Rachman's top 10 journalist's tales 2011-07-27T11:26:31Z There’s also Luis, an amiable slum resident who Mr. Alpert misses on one visit because he’s doing prison time for working the black market — an activity he cheerfully returns to on his release. Review: ‘Cuba and the Cameraman’ Lavishes Love on a Country … and Castro 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z A terse sentence of Atlas’s on the Montreal slum where Bellow lived as a child — “Rats foraged in the dirt-packed yards” — says more, and says it better, than Leader’s clotted paragraphs. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Some of the strongest scenes follow him through the city’s barricaded streets, hillside slums and bustling markets. France’s Colonial Conflict, Filmed From Both Sides 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z He was raised by his strong-willed grandmother in a St. Louis slum after his alcoholic mother gave up her children and his father abandoned the family. Robert Guillaume, star of TV's 'Benson,' dies at age 89 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Hunger, disease, hazardous jobs and continual threats that the slum will be razed add to sense of impermanence and powerlessness for Annawadi denizens. 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers': Elusive justice in a Mumbai slum 2012-02-08T22:13:05Z It really is a thrill to discover that, faced as we are with massive urban migration and rapidly expanding slums, there are big success stories that affirm the power of simple ideas. ArtsBeat Blog: An Exhibit at the United Nations on Design That Improves Slums 2011-10-21T19:17:22Z It’s jarring, but this isn’t the first instance of a big US star slumming it on British TV. Rob Lowe, bobby on the beat? The US A-listers who ended up on British TV 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Patterned on "La Boheme," Larson's libretto transforms Puccini's penniless, consumptive Paris artists into an omnisexual group of friends living in slum squalor on the streets and in vacant buildings of Alphabet City. 'Rent': Young, robust cast sells 'Rent' revival 2012-07-27T21:03:06Z Soon enough he’s back home slumming around in decrepit neighborhoods for food carts and talking about the four spice grinders he owns. Books of The Times: ?An Economist Gets Lunch,? by Tyler Cowen 2012-04-10T15:38:44Z At 18 years of age, Fox moved into a studio apartment in the slums of Beverly Hills to pursue a career in acting. “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”: 6 major revelations from Michael J. Fox’s new documentary 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Ali was 8-years-old when she played the role of the young Latika in Boyle's Oscar winning film, and her journey from the slum to the Oscar stage made international headlines. Mumbai slum fire destroys home of Slumdog actor 2011-03-05T17:05:20Z "Once I got in the slums and I met those people who had nothing and had been so ill-treated and saw them smile, I took such joy from that," Haggis says. Hollywood stars lend a hand for diverse charities 2010-07-19T01:57:00Z Shaped like a pyramid and sitting atop a hill overlooking the city’s slums, the Helicoide has become infamous as a location where political prisoners are detained and tortured. Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Ambition, betrayal, self-sacrifice and phenomenal strength all play a part in who survives to the next day or succeeds in leaving the slum. 2012′s best — so far! 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z As the title implies, we begin in California — “Hollywood to the slums,” if we are being specific. Like Many Classic Songs, Fergie's New Single Is Just a List of Random Cities 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z When you find him hunched over the bar at a seedy Hollywood tavern, he's not slumming in search of a good album cover shot. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z By 2050, with rural poverty increasing everywhere, it's estimated there will be 2 billion people living in slums around the world. Rewind radio: Slums 101; Too Many Books ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:55Z Her depiction of slums in her first novel Mary Barton made a big impact among the reading public at the time. Doors open to Cranford author's home 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z As a result, the children were often shifted from one household to another in the Johannesburg slums. Peter Abrahams, whose novels detailed South Africa’s racial injustice, dies at 97 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Fifty years ago, instead of concert halls and opera houses, the Upper West Side was an ethnic slum and Bernstein and Sondheim set West Side Story in the tenements that once stood here. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z “There’s a consciousness about what they’re doing — we call it ‘slumming,’ ” said Camille Charles, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies race. Yale Graduates Seek a Degree in Hip-Hop 2012-11-09T23:36:49Z The real solution to cholera would be fixing the sanitation system in the slums. In Haiti, Battling Disease With Open-Air Clinics 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Built in 1938, the centre was conceived as the antithesis of the cramped slums, stale air and ill-health surrounding it in what was one of 's poorest boroughs. Campaigners fight plan to sell world-renowned Finsbury Health Centre 2010-04-12T14:49:00Z The report concluded that “future slum clearance should consider the fate of the dogs displaced.” Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z At a planning meeting at Liverpool Town Hall earlier, residents of the streets pleaded with the council to knock down what they called "damp slums" and replace them with modern homes. Blow in fight to save Ringo house 2011-04-19T17:04:06Z Lives in a slum at the foot of Payatas dumpsite in Quezon city. Manila residents speak out about Duterte's war on drugs 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z You can see these slums on Google Earth – a tumble of rusty corrugated iron and rubbish dumps stretching from the streets down to the river. 'Do you ever think about me?': the children sex tourists leave behind 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z To the casual observer, this appearance represented nothing more than a pair of A-listers unafraid to appear to be slumming it if it means spreading the word about their new movie. Two men. One dream 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z However, this raises an important point about slumming actors: although the work is beneath them, the films are often loads of fun to watch. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z "It's not that I want to live in some slum and wear a handloom sari," she said. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z The production runs in repertory with “La Bohème,” Puccini’s tragic tale of love and death in the slums. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z In Kibera, an area of Nairobi, Kenya, and one of the densest slums in Africa, the challenge was different. Architecture: For Some of the World?s Poor, Hope Comes Via Design 2011-10-21T19:17:11Z For middle-class people like me who grew up in Bombay, forays into slums were infrequent. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z “This is cities under siege. And slum renewal becomes a euphemism for a lot of things.” “Stop being victims. I think it’s wicked, in a way, to be a victim”: Matt Tyrnauer’s new documentary is “Citizen Jane” 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z In the streets, I often heard speakers playing a pop song called “All of Us Love Sisi,” written by Shabola, who came from a Giza slum: My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z As the book opens, Darling, its heroine, is 10 years old and living in Paradise, one of the worst slums in an unnamed African country. ‘We Need New Names’: harsh vision of the African Diaspora 2013-08-24T15:12:52Z Today, close to five million people live in the Riachuelo’s basin, many of them in urban slums known as villas, along the water’s edge. Life Along a Poisoned River 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z These were turn-of-the-century ethnic enclaves and slums as mere way stations for newcomers on the road to assimilation. ‘Ghetto,’ by Mitchell Duneier 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z What distinguishes his writing from others’ is his presence in the slums, factories and homes where Egyptians first began questioning their relations with their rulers. High fliers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Nair premiered her upcoming Disney film "Queen of Katwe," about a chess prodigy who rose from the slums of Uganda, at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. Long-silent voices speak loudly at Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The entire thrust of the film — emphasized by the atmosphere-setting scenes of littered slums and overwhelming crowds — is that in the Indian maelstrom the truth can’t be found. Television Review: ?Marathon Boy,? Story of Indian Prodigy, on HBO - Review 2011-11-03T00:48:42Z As a teenager, he took pleasure in mapping the local slums, showing an early interest in the social and spatial politics of city life. Bruce Graham obituary 2010-03-25T19:06:00Z The poverty is breathtaking and Santos had to go through an intermediary to ask the drug dealers that rule this area to allow her into the slum. 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z James was no doubt slumming it with me and my six-carat pin-cushion sapphire, with its barely perceptible hairline fracture that made it affordable to me, and I was grateful for his attention. Lord of the engagement rings 2013-02-20T01:00:00Z Ms. Boo says that she chose Annawadi because the scale of this “sumpy plug of slum” bordering a lake of sewage was small, and its location was fraught with possibilities. Books of The Times: Katherine Boo?s First Book, ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-01-30T23:08:37Z Meanwhile, the dead city, in its gorgeous squalor, lives: “the black churning Thames dense with smoking barges . . . a rabbit-warren of slums where tattered grey washing hung limply from lines across the street.” Review | Niall Leonard is E.L. James’s husband, but his new novel shows he’s more than a plus-one 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z A woman who would identify herself only as Tahrook, 24, shared how she grew up in the slums of the Philippines. They opened their home to dozens of young people. Then he learned he could give one more thing: A kidney. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Frank Pierson created the grammar of the urban crime story in "Dog Day Afternoon."You would imagine that one of the top screenwriters ever would talk down to TV, and think it was slumming. Media Decoder: Remembrances of Frank Pierson, Creator of 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' 2012-07-27T17:36:05Z The digitally contrived effect in which 9-foot gods mix it up with normal-size mortals suggests nothing so much as celebrities slumming with their fans. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Alexander the Great’: Let Me Polish That Breastplate 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Shots of slums and slum clearance provide a metaphor for the creation of a new society and a new consciousness. A Feminist, Neorealist, Communist Film, and a Plain Great Movie 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Cliff Dwellers has a satirical corollary: on a washing line strung across the narrow street, the slum tenants have hung out their laundry, hoping for a breeze to stir the frayed and greying undergarments. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z But this meant returning her to a devastated country and a family living in desperate slum conditions. TV review: Just William; Giles and Sue Live the Good Life; The Miracle Baby of Haiti 2010-12-29T08:00:04Z A 1837 watercolour of the Great Dust Heap at Kings Cross in London shows a black mountain range, a miniature model of the Alps, surrounded by urban allotments, slum housing and a smallpox hospital. Dishing the dirt 2011-03-18T15:59:52Z British Import With Sex and Sleuths Setting a cop show in the slums of East London in 1889 gives you several advantages. Television Review: ‘Ripper Street,’ With Matthew Macfadyen, on BBC America 2013-01-19T01:36:33Z The collection includes figurative scenes from Brazilian slums, farms and beaches. Bob Dylan's 'Brazil Series' on display in Denmark 2010-09-02T13:30:00Z A biopic about Christina Noble, who escaped the slums of Ireland and established a foundation to help orphaned and abandoned children in Vietnam. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z White producers can virtue signal by driving around in their Priuses, and Matthew McConaughey makes it OK for them to slum in Lincoln luxury sedans. Netflix's "#blackAF" is Kenya Barris' wealthier, shallower, and meaner "Black-ish" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Before you roll your eyes, Longoria isn't just slumming it here. Eva Longoria shows passion for acting, activism and philanthropy 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z They are willing to slum as costumed hunter-gatherers between summer getaways to the Continent. Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Built in 1931 to re-house workers on the nearby Hoover Dam from their tented slums, this small town is only a dice roll from Vegas. 10 of the best small towns in the US: readers’ travel tips 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Ben Schechter, a filmmaker making a documentary about the festival, was accosted by an individual with a shotgun while gathering footage in the slums that faced the site. Roughing It and Rocking It at a Mexico Festival 2010-03-23T21:28:00Z These are the slums of Angeles City in the Philippines, and the children here represent a United Nations of parentage. 'Do you ever think about me?': the children sex tourists leave behind 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Such is the status of the nun acclaimed for her work in the slums of the Indian city now known as Kolkata. Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Struck by the vastness of London’s slums, he documented several scenes with lithographs. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z On “Don’t Get Captured,” he talks about gentrification as social violence: “The slums in the city blown up/now the white folks showed up/everything bought sold up.” Run the Jewels, Still Insisting on Old Hip-Hop Values 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Hotspots where new pathogens are most likely to hatch, such as factory farms, urban slums and wild habitats that are rapidly invaded, are being watched. Passing through 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z I’m astonished and moved to see how she intimately engages and clearly depicts the lives of people living in a slum village next to the airport in Mumbai. Elaine Pagels: By the Book 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z A brilliant and tireless work of journalism set in the slums close to Mumbai airport. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z If Winslet can be persuaded to slum it as a dystopian baddie in the Divergent movies, she could hardly turn down the chance to play the first-ever female Bond. It's time for Jane Bond: I spy seven potential 007 actors perfect for the role 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z They lived for two years in a slum in Kolkata, once known as Calcutta, in a four-by-six room without running water. Dominique Lapierre, 91, Dies; Popular Author Wrote ‘Is Paris Burning?’ 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Typically they combined photographs, statistics and slogans to depict social problems such as the squalor of the Paris slums and rural poverty. Zurich Exhibition Portrays Life and Work of French Designer 2010-07-11T18:30:00Z Her crowning achievement was the development of a 22-acre slum in Walworth, a mile from my parish, bringing in playgrounds and open spaces for property development on a human scale. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z Having moved from dismal slums, she marveled at the light and views from her “poor-man’s penthouse” on the 11th floor. Critic?s Notebook: Penn South and Pruitt-Igoe, Starkly Different Housing Tales 2012-01-25T19:30:11Z Mr. Lapierre promised to give half his royalties from the book to improve public health in the city’s slums. Dominique Lapierre, 91, Dies; Popular Author Wrote ‘Is Paris Burning?’ 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Yes, there are slums and there is crime. 36 Hours in Jamaica 2014-03-27T18:33:52Z When a raid on a gang-infested Manila slum goes wildly awry, Manigan and her fellow officers battle to extricate themselves from a constantly replenishing army of crazed opponents and maddened residents. Review: ‘BuyBust’ Delivers a Thriller in Manila 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Largely it’s insatiable women, raggedy slum dwellers and dead children — those who are ordinarily powerless — who wield unholy power in this collection, and they seem uninterested in being reasonable. In Three New Collections, Characters on the Edge 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z In the interest of “slum clearance,” blacks were evicted from townships, which were often bulldozed, and jammed into shoddy government settlements. What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z “We don’t want people to think slums are dangerous and full of lazy people,” said Hitesh Vaidya, a guide for Reality Tours and Travel. Mumbai, a City Both Uplifting and Heartbreaking 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z I would nod and suggest, “Maybe you should think about doing something grassroots. Like volunteering or a mobile clinic in a slum.” Stories from a revolution: The beauty of leaderless Tahrir Square 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Four residents were injured on Wednesday in the clashes in Monrovia's West Point slum, which has been closed off as part of new security measures aimed at containing the deadly virus. Ebola quarantine in Liberia's capital sparks violence in slum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Eventually my parents were able to leave the slum but by then the damage had already been done to my sister's health, and the TB spread into her spine. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Born in the Edinburgh slums, Connery was full of raw material. Sean Connery: From Tentative Secret Agent to Suave Bond 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Then, in Kibera, that famous Nairobi slum, he finds his percussion, the Slum Drummers, one of whom, Michael, is blind. TV review: Gary Barlow – On Her Majesty's Service; The Apprentice: The Final 2012-06-03T19:30:01Z It is a Brazilian dance troupe composed of young people, mostly men of African descent, mostly from the favelas, or slums, of Rio. Dance Review: Companhia Urbana de Dança Performs at the Joyce 2014-03-04T21:32:45Z Newspapers called for “total lockdown” and forgotten families in the slums began to starve and to seethe. Inspired by Mother Teresa, Kenyan safari operator feeds 24,000 families 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Ellen Page belatedly follows up Juno with roller derby teen flick Whip It, from debut director Drew Barrymore, and Julianne Moore slums it in weak genre picture Shelter. Clash of the Titans and How to Train Your Dragon fuel 3D bonanza at UK box office 2010-04-07T09:31:00Z Hip-hop isn’t dead, the film energetically insists; it’s just been hiding in a Moroccan slum. ‘Casablanca Beats’ Review: Hip-Hop Isn’t Dead 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z "You" fall in love, with a woman known as "the pretty girl", who comes from the same city slum, and works her way up into modelling and acting. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-03-28T08:00:02Z Located in Edinburgh's underground vaults, once housing the city's worst poverty-stricken slums, the aptly named Banshee Labyrinth claims to be Scotland's most haunted nightclub and hosts this month's outing by the Anagram guys. This week's new clubs 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z Far from utopias, the communities mimic their life-size consumerist counterparts with chain restaurants, while the poor are walled off in a slum. 'Downsizing' puts microscope on environment, immigration and humanity 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The musical, about freeborn Black people and newly arrived Irish immigrants coexisting peacefully, for a time, in Five Points, a New York slum, during the Civil War, focuses on a fascinating American story. Theater to See This Season After a Very Long Intermission 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Frequent flier ... an Air India jet flies low over a Mumbai slum. World literature tour: India 2011-07-18T12:03:18Z He conducted a survey in 12 clinics around Harare, and found that the clinic with the highest rate of depression was in the slum of Mbare, where one in three people was affected. Busting the myth that depression doesn't affect people in poor countries 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z They're a group of paraplegics who live in the slums of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sweet music 2011-03-16T09:11:08Z In one photograph, a group of residents from a slum called Isla Maciel travel across the river in an inflatable boat. Life Along a Poisoned River 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Boo spent more than three years in the slum to write the book. ArtsBeat: Katherine Boo’s ‘Beautiful Forevers’ Headed to the Stage 2013-05-10T18:50:14Z Excluded from the love of a father who is too busy struggling to hold his business empire together, the boy goes slumming it in Eastcheap. Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z This vivacious young woman exchanged the rags and deprivations of her slum childhood in Brooklyn for the glamour and riches of Hollywood, but lived to regret it. Clara Bow: the hard-partying jazz-baby airbrushed from Hollywood history 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z A 1996 film version of the musical starred Madonna as Eva, a former child of the slums who became a champion of the poor and internationally known for her quest for power. ArtsBeat: Michael Cerveris to Play Juan Peron in 'Evita' Revival on Broadway 2011-08-08T18:24:42Z Riots broke out in a slum in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, on Wednesday as residents desperate for food rations battled police. Ebola: airlines cancel more flights to affected countries 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Like Katharine Boo — who synthesized hours of research into a cinematic account of slum life in “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” — Flock writes about her subjects with omniscient authority. Marriage Can Take Many Forms in India 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z This is an incredible, fantastical version of New York, full of costumed criminals, labyrinths of graffiti-covered subway tunnels and miserable slums. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'The Way Back'? Try other tales of wilderness survival 2011-01-20T22:20:04Z How about Hans Haacke’s early research projects that imaginatively linked New York slum real estate and corporate art sponsorship. At ‘Greater New York,’ Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z I remember housewives from Beverly Hills and Bel-Air coming down and slumming it and getting strung out. Bret Michaels, Duff McKagan and Sebastian Bach Reminisce 2012-06-08T12:12:52Z That poignant drama, “Capernaum,” follows a boy who runs away and winds up roaming the slums of Beirut shouldering a distressing responsibility. ‘Capernaum’ Is Not Just a Film, but a Rallying Cry 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z "What I did was I went into the slums and started with kids inside of the roughest communities." Haiti faces a question: Who is Wyclef Jean? 2010-08-06T23:08:00Z And other members of the slum church who were captured along with the priests were never seen again. Papal election stirs memories of Argentina’s “Dirty War” 2013-03-14T15:33:00Z But what at first looked like a solution to neighborhood disinvestment and racist slum clearance policies became a problem. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z These days, the Casbah is a rotting slum. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z Beneath the Sept of Baelor and the slums of Flea Bottom. How Jaime Lannister Could Play a Major Role in Game of Thrones' War Against the Dead 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z He went on to produce huge public photo projects in poverty- or conflict-stricken parts of the world, such as favelas in Brazil, slums in Kenya and on the Gaza Strip. A Trick of the Eye Turns a Luxurious Embassy Inside Out 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Punching above its budget, there is something grimly credible in Shank's city of shanty slums, scavengers and out of control violence. Film review: Shank 2010-03-25T23:45:00Z On the mainland, in the slums of Caracas as in the elegant homes of bankers and oilmen, the situation is more severe. Silent Days Stalking Bonefish in Venezuela 2010-03-26T22:22:00Z Its historic center is a medieval slum inhabited by foreign laborers. Critic?s Notebook: Laying Out Economic Cities, Saudis See Window to Modernity 2010-12-13T03:28:00Z The pancakes were an exercise in culinary slumming for my dad. Family life 2011-08-12T23:06:13Z Narrated by a young girl, Chula, and her family’s maid from a nearby slum, the story captures the despair, confusion and chaos as the country’s conflict raged. New in Paperback: ‘Bruce Lee,’ ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The heart of the trumped-up case is an allegation that Narayan performed an original song in a Mumbai slum, urging sewer workers to commit suicide, a “seditious” act. Review: ‘Court’ Is Chaitanya Tamhane’s Unsparing Look at Justice in India 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Boo makes it easy to forget that this indelible book about life in a Mumbai slum is not a novel. Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z Welcome to Lagos is so much better than Secret Slumdog Millionaire – for one because it's actually about the people in the slums, not someone wanting to be seen to be doing good. Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-16T05:45:00Z Schemes to demolish slums made their situation still more marginal, even as a flood of foreign labour depressed wages for unskilled jobs below what was needed to start a family. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Eventually, she drank herself to death in a tenement slum far from anything that might remind her of my father. Modern Love: Affirmation of a Father?s Love, Etched in Vinyl 2010-06-04T16:24:00Z The task of providing everybody with homes ultimately proved unmanageable: proliferating slums outpaced new construction; poverty rose. Review: ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980’ at MoMA 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Boo's nonfiction book, set in a Mumbai slum, also is a story of a boy and his harsh and illuminating education in the consequences of crime or perceived crime. Erdrich wins National Book Award for fiction 2012-11-15T04:18:08Z Organizers said Tuesday that movies will be screened at some 30 venues throughout Rio, including on the beach and in a "favela," or hillside slum. 400 movies from 60 countries at Rio Film Festival 2012-09-18T23:16:04Z The night ended with a best-drama win for “Moonlight,” a movie about a poor gay black man looking for human connection in the slums of Miami. Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z "In the ghetto, the barrio, the hood, the slums/government funds fill my city up with drugs and guns," he raps. CMJ Music Festival: Five Bands in One Night 2010-10-25T15:00:00Z Mr. Majerus was capable of concentrated gestures, as when he installed a life-size photograph of a Berlin slum directly in front of the politically loaded Brandenburg Gate. Art Trek: From Hot to Schlock: Holland Cotter Tours Chelsea Galleries 2014-04-03T22:41:59Z Following a nimble production of “The Shadow of a Gunman,” the Irish Repertory Theater returns to the Dublin slums with this tragicomedy, the second in a season devoted to Sean O’Casey. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Budget accommodations Circus Hostel Being frugal doesn’t necessarily mean slumming it. 10 of the best ways to enjoy Berlin … on a budget 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z In a video documenting the artist’s work in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya — part of his Women Are Heroes series — one resident plainly describes the appeal: “It is like marketing,” he says. What José Parlá, JR and Kunle Martins Learned from Graffiti 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z For Mr. Chakrabarti, the latest spate of killings of unarmed African-Americans by the police and others speaks to the legacy of slum clearance, federal home mortgage interest deductions, redlining, oil subsidies and highway construction. Renewal Projects, Down to the Sidewalks, Highlight Social Divides 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Seen as a slum, the district was flattened in 1939 to make way for a public housing project. New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push 2011-01-07T11:01:04Z He dwells upon the ugliness of the Baltimore slums where Ruth was born and the Alcatraz-like atmosphere of the Catholic industrial school where the Babe was sequestered for 10 years as a youth. Review: Books About Babe Ruth 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s painful, though, watching her slum through “What Happens in Vegas,” playing off an unworthy foil like Ashton Kutcher, another reason it’s a relief to see her surrounded by the talent packed into “Bad Teacher.” | 'Bad Teacher': When the Teacher Gets High Marks in the Raunchy and the Profane 2011-06-23T22:21:08Z He is the ninth policeman to be killed in Rio’s slums this year. Harry Potter's Brazilian voiceover actor shot dead in Rio shanty town 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z For a while, Hank’s prodigal return is played for gentle, knowing laughs, as a comedy about a city slicker slumming it with the good country folk and rediscovering his roots in the process. ‘The Judge’ Stars Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Despite inevitable privations, this new three-part series on Lagos' slums suggests that many adapt surprisingly well to their extreme environments. The Book Show 2010-04-15T05:45:00Z Since then, his work has taken off globally — the artist has made portraits in places from rural China to Brazilian slums and inside the Panthéon in Paris. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z And with projects now filled with the politically powerless, and with revenue from rent payments falling, government slashed maintenance budgets and turned high rises into slums. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z “The process of making this film was very different from anything else I’ve done,” Akhtar says of filming in the Mumbai slums. Indian audiences shun spectacle with Bollywood's first hip-hop film 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Working with Father Rick Frechette, an American doctor who has worked in the slums of Port-au-Prince for more than two decades, the organization started small, sponsoring "street schools" in the Cite Soleil slum. Hollywood stars lend a hand for diverse charities 2010-07-19T01:57:00Z Nearly two decades later, living in the slums of Lima, she wants to take her mother's body back to her native village. The Milk of Sorrow 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z Some of the plays at the Tamanaco tell of Venezuelans’ grim realities, such as kidnappings at gun-point and hunger in the slums, while comedies poke fun at everyday nuisances. Another way to face reality, Venezuelans flock to theaters 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, the area around Arnold Circus in the East End was a crime-blighted slum. TV highlights 11/07/2012 2012-07-10T18:59:01Z Bachata is a string- and percussion-based style of danceable music born in the slums and the sugar-cane fields of the Dominican Republic and brought to the United States by Dominican immigrants. Anthony Santos Has New Album and TV Project 2011-11-13T05:00:12Z Sanergy harvests waste from toilets it operates in a franchise network in Nairobi’s sprawling slums and feeds it to fly larvae, which become high-quality animal feed. From poo to food: Kenyan toilet waste key for new animal feed 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Michael Collins takes an educative and nostalgic look back at the history of council housing, inaugurated to rid the nation of 19th-century slums and to provide "homes fit for heroes" following the first world war. Tonight's TV highlights: Living with The Ayatollah - Panorama 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z A translated extract charts a Dante-esque division between The Pit, or slum quarter, and the palace. Is the Arab world ready for a reading revolution? 2010-04-16T10:19:00Z An outsider artist, he spent half a century dodging security guards and police officers as he obsessively covered lampposts and mailboxes, slums and ferry piers, with his distinctive Chinese text. Art: King of Kowloon Finally Gets Respect 2011-05-04T12:58:39Z Carlos Mielehas made it a tradition to put some of the life of Brazil’s favelas, or slums, into his designs: encouraging the delicate work of human hands in the signature rosettes of each collection. 2010-02-16T13:30:00Z Let us finish our marathon with an undiluted cavalcade of slumming actors. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z |
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