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"streetwise" Definitions
  1. having the knowledge and experience that is needed to deal with the difficulties and dangers of life in a big city

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What do you hope people will take away from Streetwise?
The Streetwise cast's participation in the "Passion" was not merely token.
Life outside, as a streetwise scamp around the docks, proves even harsher.
She is cool; she is streetwise and very French in her approach.
In August 1983, Bell, Mark, and McCall returned to Seattle to make Streetwise.
StreetWise is slated for its first test runs at the end of 2019.
In 18th-century Cairo, streetwise orphan Nahri cons wealthy Ottoman tourists to survive.
Even the typically streetwise Alexander Wang endorsed a buttoned-up version for fall.
To this sort of observation, Mr. Else brings a practiced filmmaker's streetwise sensibility.
In Streetwise, Tiny wears a bright red jacket with blue jeans like James Dean.
Such affinities can mute the radicalness of some works; others retain their streetwise beauty.
Playing young Saroo, Pawar's face is full of expression, both innocent and, eventually, streetwise.
The album blended the gaudy maximalism of hair-metal with the streetwise hustle of g-funk.
He's soaring, but he's also raw, and his streetwise menace compliments his band's more earthbound direction.
Arnold, in turn, takes up with Alan (Michael Rosen), a streetwise young model and former hustler.
Indeed, Brennan's voice is softer than his face, and different from the streetwise directness of his brother.
But perhaps given hip-hop's increasing malleability, its serious, reflective, streetwise arm is primed for a return.
But Louie has been amazing, he's a tough guy, he's a smart guy, he's streetwise like crazy.
Although it uses a similar style as Streetwise — voices heard over footage — Tiny is more straightforward and streamlined.
The streetwise aesthetic of the Jesus Movement had always been joined to a firm belief in Biblical inerrancy.
Duck into a bar, my streetwise mother recommended; the bartenders, often off-duty police officers, will help you.
Under Diego Simeone, a former Atlético player and now the manager, Los Rojiblancos have become an efficient, streetwise team.
Those bands of streetwise consumers flaunt initialed T-shirts, boots, sneakers, belts and totes with a dash of irony.
Throughout his career, Baki has integrated expressionist and abstract affinities into his figurative scenes with a streetwise visual vocabulary.
His idea was to erect barriers around the violence in the form of interventions by community leaders and streetwise locals.
Her voice lends the band a hard, streetwise edge, and musically, Substratum splits the difference between Accept and early Iron Maiden.
Young Jimmy, already streetwise despite not even being in middle school, can tell his dad is about to get ripped off.
In Days of Heaven, Linda Mantz's wry, streetwise commentary proves her uneducated Chicagoan teenager more mature than the adults around her.
As a performer, Glover staked out the territory that Chance the Rapper now occupies: streetwise but legal, sweet but not dumb.
Bach's final chorus talks of rest but not of triumph, yet the Streetwise ethos is to raise hopes, not depress them.
McGill is a streetwise Staten Island secretary fresh out of night school, desperate to reach the first rung on the corporate ladder.
Tharp's mating of ballet and popular music—a style she returned to in productions like "Movin' Out"—is sly, sexy, and streetwise.
The occasion was the publication of " The ABCs of Style: A Graffiti Alphabet ," a Baby Einstein-like book for the streetwise set.
And Trevante Rhodes, who portrays Chiron as a streetwise adult man nicknamed "Black," had done only a few small parts as well.
The mouthy punks, streetwise prostitutes and seen-it-all bartenders drop away, and we're ushered to a seat at the central drama.
L started these art-smart, streetwise works mostly in the late 1980s or early '90s, sometimes returning to them over several years.
Though he is streetwise from years running his hustles, he said he believed Yousef's claims that the guns weren't headed for the streets.
And to kick things off, the pop star started off wearing one of her typically streetwise styles with plenty of complicated, extraneous detailing.
Combining social purpose with serious artistic endeavor, Streetwise has collaborated with major figures from the music world, like Mr. Christophers and Mr. MacMillan.
Wood Harris, who was the drug dealer Avon Barksdale in "The Wire," plays the streetwise, manic hip-hop manager Barry Fouray, Nikki's new employer.
Beverly Tapinski, the unflappable, streetwise daughter of a former beauty queen and a New York City cop, is committed to sabotaging the entire pageant.
Those guys were streetwise kings of the hood from mighty New York, urban jungle warriors so ultra masculine they were like comic book superheroes.
Q-Tip was the artistic, esoteric, philosophical M.C. while Phife Dawg was the streetwise, confident yet humble rapper with a little Trinidadian "ruffneck" swag.
He was attracted by his streetwise, irreverent approach and went to see the playwright, who proposed "Greek" as the most operatic of his plays.
Arthur is white and tradition-bound; Franco is black and streetwise, or at least a tame prime-time sitcom's version of what that is.
Garbarino founded VentureApp along with his Streetwise Media co-founders Kevin McCarthy and Greg Gomer, as well as Dailybreak founders Boris Revsin and Jared Stenquist.
The five women described Mr. Roma as a charming and charismatic teacher who cultivated a streetwise persona and emphasized perseverance, sacrifice and dedication to craft.
And that's what David Swinson writes about in his streetwise private-eye novels featuring Frank Marr, a forcibly retired cop and mostly reformed cocaine addict.
With "Te Bote" co-producer Young Martino in tow, the Puerto Rican lyricist weaves his streetwise narrative with a touch of braggadocio and a knowing glare.
Before her passing in 2015, the photographer was able to complete her final body of work and a new monograph for Aperture titled Tiny: Streetwise Revisited .
Currently at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Tiny: Streetwise Revisited is an exhibition of images that pull directly from Mark's lengthy relationship with Tiny.
But in the 80s, Bolden's penchant for partying pulled him toward cocaine, and before long, the streetwise entrepreneur joined the ranks of the city's top drug traffickers.
Streetwise was directed by her husband Martin Bell, and based on her 219 LIFE magazine photo essay "Streets of the Lost," which profiled the same set of kids.
Dressed in a dark three-piece suit and holding a lit cigarette in his left hand, the young man's mien projects self-assuredness, streetwise skepticism and aggressive irony.
It turns out that the Great Mage of the North was a streetwise woman from Mistrinaut, not the sweet knight in training the show followed throughout his journey.
Listen to it below, check out the tracklist for Breathing, and revisit the duo's 219 Story of the Runways mix inspired by Martin Bell's Oscar-nominated 220 documentary Streetwise.
Throughout, Ms. Lopez holds the screen in a star performance that has less to do with acting than with embodying a forceful, streetwise woman who stands up for herself.
That Dao-Yi Chow, 42, and Maxwell Osborne, 34, the designers who made their names with the streetwise label Public School, are cool has never been called into question.
Buyer: 22020 West 26 Street Buyer's Broker: Yossi Foler, Streetwise Properties Seller: 19th Hole My Favorite Seller's Broker: Matt Lesser and Ravi Kantha, Leslie J. Garfield & Company $60/SQ.
Peter Debruge, Variety: This ambitious, yet astonishingly well-executed Netflix tentpole directly benefits from the way Ayer's gritty, streetwise sensibility grounds Landis' gift for creating an elaborate comic-book mythology.
Martin Bell's Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell and Streetwise will screen at BAM Rose Cinemas (Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave, Fort Greene, Brooklyn) on Saturday, June 25.
These streetwise balletic set pieces have earned Iosseliani comparisons to Buster Keaton and legendary French actor-director Jacques Tati, who reimagined slapstick as a kind of high modernist formal gamesmanship.
It's no surprise that Allstate's own brands, such as Esurance and Answer Financial (which only last month announced the release of a telematics app called Streetwise Drivers Club), are clients.
Two wheezing bayans—the Russian version of the accordion—lend the work a streetwise Parisian flavor, particularly when they are joined to a mangled little waltz melody that recurs throughout.
But singing Missy Elliott's sassy, streetwise lyrics with effortless charisma at 17 remains the moment when Aaliyah grew into greatness and found the defining sound of her woefully short career.
"Cara Delevingne is the perfect embodiment of the trendsetting Rimmel brand and its edgy, streetwise personality," Johanna Bussinelli, chief marketing officer of color cosmetics at Coty, said of its newest collaboration.
Tracks like "War in the Name of Peace" through "Violator/Violated" effortlessly cross their Infest and Weekend Nachos influences with the streetwise ferocity of metallic hardcore-meets-grindcore blasts and stomps.
"Feds Did a Sweep" was probably the most honest, powerful moment on the more streetwise FUTURE half of Future's album duology this year, a tribute to friends who've been locked up.
His music, though, puts the two genres in conversation in a far different way: He uses his turntable as an instrument, going far beyond the flourishes meant to add streetwise flair.
With their bouncy melodies and anthemic leads, they often feel like a tougher, more streetwise High Spirits, and if there's one thing we sorely fucking need this year, it's more joy.
Hill models an assortment of preppy looks with a streetwise edge in a series of images shot in New York by photographer Giampaolo Sgura and styled by Topshop's Creative Director, Kate Phelan.
Since Nike unveiled its streetwise design for the Nigeria's World Cup team kit three months ago, there has been a frenzy online from people eager to splash out $1963 for a shirt.
The athletic Renato Schuch, clad in a loose, white tracksuit, is well cast as the streetwise, sexy, deranged Parisian-born son of an Algerian immigrant, and he also carries some minor parts.
He's also stayed independent, another unlikely choice for an M.C. who trades in catchy trap beats and streetwise lyrics just slightly more hard edged than the current trends on commercial rap radio.
"The Under-Pup," which also starred Robert Cummings, told the story of a streetwise city girl taken to a rural camp for wealthy girls, where she wins over a group of bullies.
That set the tone for their venture, Advisory Board Crystal, an e-commerce platform with a small clothing offering that fuses New Age spirituality (yes, crystals are involved) with a streetwise sensibility.
A streetwise police intelligence superintendent, Jacques Bayard, is assigned the task of finding Barthes's murderers and the missing document, despite his working-class disgust for the "filthy little lefties" of Barthes's milieu.
"What the Point72 Lawsuit Says About Wall Street: Steve Cohen's firm is part of an industry in which swagger and jerkdom are conflated with trading aggression" — Barron's "Streetwise" column, by Mary Childs(subscription).
For example, Direct Line, one of Five's new investors and also a participant in the StreetWise project, could use testing and measurement to determine risk and pricing for insurance packages of different vehicles.
The first tough, streetwise look of the day was head-to-toe Public School, paired with a black fur jacket by Reiss, hat by Eugenia Kim, a Jennifer Fisher choker and Giuseppe Zanetti booties.
Our new employer was the Psychic Readers Network, a hotline known for its ads starring Miss Cleo, a motormouthed shaman with a lavishly fake Jamaican accent and a streetwise, no-nonsense approach to soothsaying.
Nothing so violent happens here, but there's a conspicuous fish-out-of-water quality to both episodes, a sense that these streetwise men, who operate in illicit circles, have no place in another ecosystem.
Y/Project is a bad-ass label, after all: another brand based in streetwise garments, which designer Glen Martens layers with highly ornate, essentially Baroque references, like he's playing lead harpsichord on a Megadeth record.
He plays a successful cabaret act named Ruby Red, who loses his life savings and is forced to embark on a national tour while taking care of a streetwise teenage orphan named AJ (Izzy Gaspersz).
The result is a streetwise lyricism echoing with the Beat rhythms of AbEx, the Diamond Dog days of New York's '70s slide, and the raw fabric of the city just beyond the current wave of homogenization.
A remake of the 2011 French hit "The Intouchables," this awkward-looking mix of buddy comedy and uplifting weeper casts Bryan Cranston as a wealthy quadriplegic who hires a streetwise parolee (Kevin Hart) as his aide.
Ritchie zips past an impressionistic version of the boy's childhood — a whisked-together blur of physical abuse, childhood scheming, and fight lessons — and lands at a point where Arthur has become a streetwise, frequently shirtless Charlie Hunnam.
The show was produced by Streetwise Opera, which puts people living on the streets and, almost by definition, leading chaotic existences, into the discipline of working in high-profile musical performances that make serious demands of them.
The new book Magnum Streetwise chronicles this deep legacy of street photography at Magnum and reveals how the agency's photographers have not only documented the world around us — but also changed the way we look at it.
Sandro and Maje's storefronts tend to arrive side by side — their respective founders are sisters — with the former hitting the sleek, streetwise side of the Parisian fashion equation and the latter delivering a more bohemian, feminine look.
House music remains Lee's genre of choice, despite his career; more than one streetwise rapper has been shocked, on entering Lee's car, to encounter some dreamy club classic from the eighties—say, "Mystery of Love," by Mr. Fingers.
Chen Nian, an analyst with Gsdata, a consultancy which monitors Chinese social media, said in a statement Peppa's streetwise reputation in memes and spoofs was a "massive nonsensical joke" that was a way for young people to rebel.
Banerjee, who defeated a 34-year-old communist government in West Bengal in an election in 2011, is known for her streetwise political skills and portrays herself as a secular leader in a country polarized under the BJP.
Ms. Versace, for her part, seemed nonplused as she sipped a mineral water backstage and greeted well-wishers, though the no-show was in keeping with the vision she has always had for her younger, more streetwise fashion brand.
Maurice Carroll, who brought streetwise insights to his political reporting for a string of major newspapers, and who later became the public face of the emerging Quinnipiac University poll, died on Wednesday in Convent Station, N.J. He was 86.
This indiscretion also comes hot on the heels of a questionable line of clothing Zara produced called the "Streetwise Collection," which happens to bear a striking resemblance to the Yeezy line with it's boxy shapes, frayed hems, and taupe color palette.
" "Strip That Down" is a song so relentlessly square (save for the bit when, inexplicably, Quavo from the Migos jumps in) that it sounds like co-writer Ed Sheeran was given a brief which just said "make it a bit... streetwise?
KFC has also launched a marketing campaign called "Streetwise" — a series of ads and meals it had introduced in South Africa and elsewhere that are designed to appeal to a first generation of middle-class consumers looking for new experiences.
KFC has also launched a marketing campaign called "Streetwise" — a series of ads and meals it had introduced in South Africa and elsewhere that are designed to appeal to a first generation of middle-class consumers looking for new experiences.
"They came back from the war, walked into their homes, and they found their families afraid to go out," says Mr Konopinski, who (like Mr Kaufman) was among a clutch of streetwise youngsters who hadn't served but joined the group anyway.
Mauricio Cújar, the full-throated voz of Colombia's television network Canal RCN, is fabulous as Don Berna, the streetwise bodyguard who—in real life and, probably, future seasons—went on to reassemble the shattered pieces of Escobar's network the Oficina de Envigado.
It's less fully realized than "Motherless Brooklyn" (1999), his ecstatic breakthrough novel, a detective tale narrated by a man with Tourette's syndrome, or "The Fortress of Solitude" (2003), his streetwise, semi-autobiographical novel about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s and '80s.
The tag line — "First they got busted, then they got badges" — referred to three attractive, streetwise flower children ("One black, one white, one blonde," as another tag line explained) who, after some trouble with the law, joined the police force and worked undercover.
In 1973, using the pseudonym Lightnin' Rod, he released "Hustlers Convention," an album that unified the black tradition of toasts — rhymed stories about the heroic exploits of renegades and rebels, and the battles between them — with the contemporary sound of streetwise funk.
Enter Laura Wass's Brooklyn studio and you will find brass bunny ears, candy-colored bras, gold crowns and other pieces that are a futuristic cross between happy-go-lucky and streetwise, something a young Joan Jetson might have worn to an intergalactic rave.
Tala, a Sanbuna soldier with every reason to despise Jimuro, escorts him; meanwhile Xiulan, an unfavored daughter of the Shang royal family, teams up with a streetwise grifter named Lee Yeon-Ji to intercept and kidnap the Iron Prince on Shang's behalf.
" Characterizing Scaramucci as "a streetwise, self-made guy who wears expensive suits and talks tough," O'Brien said, "People all over the Trump Organization and in the White House got their jobs not because they necessarily had the experience or skills for the job.
Cambridge-based FiveAI — a partner in the U.K.'s StreetWise self-driving project — has raised £14 million ($18 million) and £12.8 million ($17 million) in two tranches to fill out its plans for a two-part business in the world of self-driving services.
Inspired by the Oscar-nominated 218 documentary Streetwise, which chronicles the lives of teenage runaways living on the streets of Seattle, it features tracks from Brian Eno, Chrome Sparks, Sébastien Tellier, Tangerine Dream, and unreleased Electric Youth material, weaved into a three-act narrative.
Inside their retirement plans, they hold stock in the companies that make the AR-15 rifle," Reshma Kapadia writes in the "Streetwise" column of Barron's: "The $163 billion Florida Retirement Pension Plan had a $4 million stake in gun manufacturers as of Dec. 31.
A year ago we were tipped to the pop of Moxie Raia—a 25-year-old singer from LA via New Jersey whose vocal runs are lithe, and her hooks, as on her 931 EP, are instant, blending streetwise sass and plenty of soul.
His compositions seem to pick up on the streetwise, slithering approach that Roy Hargrove put down in the 1990s, while adding ideas from the music's past 20 years: Lush, balladic harmonies give way to snappy post-bop swing, then fluttering, busted hip-hop beats.
Jake Gyllenhaal has played his share of intense characters – a star-crossed cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, a streetwise LAPD officer in End of Watch, a cold-blooded crime-scene chronicler in Nightcrawler – but none was more fraught, or rewarding, than his breakout role in Donnie Darko.
At the forefront of the boom was a streetwise Jakarta local named Rusdi Kirana, then 36, who came from a humble background, once sold typewriters for a living and became an airport freelancer hustling for scraps of opportunity among the passengers moving through the terminal buildings.
Rocky looks perfectly fashion-forward in his photos, giving the prestige brand a streetwise edge wearing patchworked jeans (created in collaboration with Japanese artist Toru Kamei) with combat boots and an oversize trench, while Remi highlights the brand's love of severe silhouettes in his stark, moodily lit portrait series.
Playlist: "Body Count" / "KKK Bitch" / "There Goes The Neighborhood" / "Invincible Gangsta" / "The End Game" / "Talk Shit Get Shot" / "99 Problems BC" / "Institutionalized 2014" Momentarily putting aside the streetwise bonafides of those first four essential solo albums, a certain idiosyncrasy has always been a part of Ice-T's modus operandi.
A certain streetwise femininity was visible in a spliced black and white jacket and pencil skirt worn open with cascading jewels on a naked chest; a clutch of terrific gold knitted and buttoned jumpsuits; and a black bomber jacket covered with silky flower petals and teamed with glittering pants.
The high-profile startup, founded by a team that had previously built and sold several chip companies to the likes of Broadcom, Nvidia and Huawei, had been the leading partner for a big government-backed pilot project, StreetWise, to test and work on autonomous driving systems across boroughs in London.
This year's events will close with a finale concert headlined by DMX and the Lox — once the marquee acts of the streetwise Ruff Ryders label in the late 1990s and the early 923s — along with Rakim, an elder statesman of rap; the longtime radio hosts and D.J.s Stretch and Bobbito; and more.bkhiphopfestival.
Like all fellows, he was recruited because the neighborhood safety agency's outreach team, which is composed largely of streetwise former felons turned "neighborhood change agents," had determined that, once out of prison, there was a high likelihood of Carter shooting someone, or being shot himself, within the next six to 12 months.
Mr. Vaccarello dove into the YSL of the 1980s for his introductory effort, eschewing the usual tropes of safari suiting, gypsies and Mondrian in favor of the big-shouldered, shirred, asymmetrical, metallic Saint Laurent of the later years (plus some Smokings, given a streetwise slant with the sleeves lopped off; transformed into a jumpsuit; or rendered in a slick, square-shouldered tuxedo over skintight denim).
On top of the Series A, FiveAI will also get a boost in the form of a grant from the U.K. government: it has so far received £12.8 million ($17 million) for StreetWise, a project it's working on with Transport for London, the Transport Research Laboratory, Oxford University, insurer Direct Line and others to develop a self-driving car pilot for London to cut traffic congestion and free up parking spaces.
Just as the Stones perfected a signature sound that could accommodate everything from ferocious Dionysian anthems to melancholy ballads about love and time and loss, so Mr. Richards has found a voice in these pages — a kind of rich, primal Keith-Speak — that enables him to dispense funny, streetwise observations, tender family reminiscences, casually profane yarns and wry literary allusions with both heart-felt sincerity and bad-boy charm.
" His rapid ascent can be credited to the marriage of radio-friendly hooks and streetwise perspective best illustrated by his melancholy, minimalist hit "Bank Account," which reached No. 12 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart last summer: What starts as a crowd-pleasing chorus about counting one's millions (and keeping them at an FDIC-insured institution) turns into a refrain about the number of "shooters ready to gun you down — not for real, dawg.
My friend, a nice kid on the lam from middle-class, suburban Jewish parents, had transformed himself into a Philly street character whose intimidating range of knowledge, arcane reading, provocative ideas, and batty eloquence, despite my reservations about his lack of personal hygiene, drew me to him as he was drawn to me, despite or because of our obvious differences, me growing up poor, therefore street tough, streetwise, he assumed, a jock who played college ball, physically attractive, smart enough, though intellectually underdeveloped, politically unsophisticated, naïve, poorly read, innocently gregarious, but my new buddy soon perceived that I was ambitious, ruthless and predatory in my dealings with other people as he was, my insightful, observant, preternaturally selfish, shamelessly inquisitive, greedy new acquaintance.

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