THERE wasn't a lot of David Bowie's music being blasted out of cheap radios in the slums of Rio de Janeiro where Seu Jorge grew up. He came up with Portuguese versions of some of Bowie's most popular songs that aren't exact translations, but deal with the oceanographer that Jorge plays in the movie. I heard Let's Dance in the '80s and that's the only song I knew until 2003. After Let's Dance came out I became confused with Billy Idol and couldn't determine which was which," Jorge says through a translator during an interview from New York
This isn't a film for the faint of heart or spirit. It's ebullient on the one hand, bloody on the other. It's idealistic as a tribute to the power of love, but it's unsparing as a portrait of Mumbai's class system, criminal underground and slums. It is a beautiful, blithe rags-to-riches fairy-tale about a teenage nobody's appearance on an Indian game show, and yet it features seedy mise-en-scenes with a Dickensian subplot and its own sadistic Fagan. Written by Simon Beaufoy from the novel by Vikas Swarup, Slumdog depicts no visitations from the dead. But its protagonist is another steadfast believer -- in love, if not in God -- and the story once again pivots on the lure of sudden cash. Right from the beginning, we learn that Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), an uneducated tea server (or "chai w...
... railway neighbourhoods north of Spence "slums"; Spence itself was a "desirable" but "slowly dete...
Privacy law specialist Brian Bowman said the accused could argue his privacy was violated by being filmed by the Toths' cameras, but Manitoba's Privacy Act says videotaping is allowed if the public interest is at stake. It's a difficult argument to make when you're out on a public street -- the accused is out in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said. "That's our goal -- we don't want people to see this area as 'the slums,' " Toth said. His wife called out for people in crime-afflicted areas to step up and do what they can to help police quell crime.
We will provide a fundamental change in the nature of supports for people with mental illness," said [Jon Gerrard]. "We're going to ensure when they're discharged from care they're going to reasonable housing rather than slums. The specialized mental health ER was developed in consultation with local mental health advocates, including the Canadian Mental Health Association, Manitoba division, which is excited about the idea. But Gerrard said it won't help patients outside Winnipeg, which was raised as a concern by the advocates. In 2004-05, there were 8,020 hospitalizations recorded in Manitoba due to a mental illness. At $240 per capita, Manitoba spends more on mental health programs than all other provinces except British Columbia, but almost two-thirds of that goes to hospital care...
Key moments in the women's movement are shown through several of the works. The towering plaster presence of Linda, by Elizabeth Wyn Wood, greets viewers as they enter the gallery. Her strong stance and furrowed brow speak loudly about the conditions that women artists faced during Wyn Wood's time in the 1930s. Audrey Riller's simple electric abstracted works sit in the same room as Linda. Photographs also play a pivotal role in the exhibit, giving the viewer another authentic angle on the topic. Two images from Dominique Rey's Selling Venus series capture the decoration of the female body for profit through the mirror in the dressing rooms of various strip clubs. Thick foundation and glossy lips, along with potent sexuality, are the tools these women use in their jobs. Bill Brandt's Un...
... warm yet heartbreaking look at life in the slums in the 1930s. A mother's strength is shown through...
In Planet India, [Mira Kamdar], a New York journalist and policy analyst who grew up in Mumbai, sets out to document the changes in India and provide a vision for its future. After more than 100 pages of awed commentary on the boom in retailing and entertainment, Kamdar finally admits that the Indian success story may not be sustainable. The removal of price supports and introduction of genetically modified cotton has caused a rash of suicides among small farmers. India's aquifiers, which supply 80 per cent of its water, are running low. The crumbling infrastructure of its cities cannot cope with rapid urbanization: air quality is hazardous to health and slums are proliferating. For Kamdar, only India, not China, can provide a valid model of development because India is a democracy. Thi...
The community doesn't have many of the features that rightly raise the ire of environmentalists: It has no cars. They must be parked on a lot on the community's outskirts. Its downtown is a big, grassy park. Even though it's on a lake, its small marina doesn't contain many power boats, but it does have a sailing club. It has no slums and energy-wasting urban sprawl. Victoria Beach was started by five Winnipeg investors led by F. C. Kennedy. A study by John Lehr and John Selwood, University of Winnipeg geographers, says the investors wanted "a high-status resort that would appeal to the wealthy elite of Winnipeg." At first, cottagers could only reach the Victoria Beach peninsula by boat. In 1916, the Canadian Northern built a line into the community. In the grain trade there are certa...
What does this line mean to the people who fall below it? [Abhijit Banerjee] and [Esther Duflo] describe the "economic lives" of the poor, drawing on 13 household surveys from Cote d'Ivoire to Mexico. The two surveys from India -- undertaken in Udaipur's farms and Hyderabad's slums -- they carried out themselves. Vikram Seth, an economist before he was a poet, has described the "dreary pillage of privacy" these surveys entail. In 2001, for example, bank researchers in Timor-Leste diligently recorded whether a household bathed under a shower or in the river; used a flush toilet or a bucket; built their home from brick or rattan, and so forth. The "great redeeming feature of poverty," George Orwell wrote after his excursions in the social gutters of Paris and London, is "the fact that it ...
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