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Example sentences for: ghetto
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Jewish toughness was seen in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis and in the sacrifices of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman in Mississippi in 1964.
The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)
And since no one bundles them off into the ghetto of genre when they bring in magic (unless you consider juvenile lit a genre), children's authors can draw on myths and fairy tales to give their books resonance and deeply satisfying structure.
Sometimes, practitioners of the genre can rise above its limitations; but you can count on two fingers the number of books that have migrated from the business-aisle ghetto to the mainstream: Barbarians at the Gate and Den of Thieves . Barbarians succeeded because its writers, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, weren't seduced by the power of its subjects.
Because she's 17 and black (her father calls her a "ghetto Cinderella"), and because she's been hyped for years (she got a multimillion-dollar Reebok contract at 14), she overshadowed the new men's champion--Australian heartthrob Patrick Rafter--and women's champion Martina Hingis, who is a year younger than Williams and creamed her in the finals.
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