Word: proletarian
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...loving adoptive father Spyros (Pete Postlethwaite), and thinks of himself as a fisherman, not a warrior; a working-class bloke, not a half-Olympian. He's the god-man as grunt, and Worthington - his accent wandering at whim from Australian to English to Iowan - plays Perseus as a wily proletarian, not far from the Jason Statham stud in Leterrier's 2006 movie Transformer 2. That's the way to play this character, since the movie is also about humans who have tired of being the gods' playthings and are ready for a slave revolt. Perseus will be their grizzled gladiator...
...dozens of memoirs about the horrors inflicted during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution line the bookcase of human evil, next to diaries from the Soviet Gulag and Holocaust concentration camps. But when Nien Cheng's harrowing Life and Death in Shanghai was published in 1986, the bamboo curtain was just lifting on the decade of madness that had seized the People's Republic beginning in the mid-1960s. Cheng was an improbable survivor of Chairman Mao's brutal campaign, a porcelain-boned diplomat's wife who spent the precommunist years swathed in silk. Yet as she recalled...
...Haven opinion is fair, it is the kind of fairness you learn at Yale Law School, not the kind you learn in the South Bronx. Sotomayor may be a child of the barrio, culturally speaking, but the judicial philosophy she represents comes from the mandarin, not the proletarian, wing of the Democratic Party...
...Carens would disagree. He likes to think of himself as a proletarian warrior championing the cause of the mistreated masses. Many union members, Carens says, wish their leadership would take a more aggressive stance against University administrators by leading and organizing public protests...
...forerunner for brands like PopMalaya and Team Manila can be found in Hong Kong's G.O.D. This fashion and homeware label - the initials are a homonym of the Cantonese phrase "live better" - was founded in 1996. From the beginning, G.O.D. took images of proletarian Hong Kong - tenement frontages, old movie posters - and applied them to clothes and accessories, articulating a prototypical Hong Kong identity just as the city was in the throes of decolonization. "Fashion and dress [have] always been part and parcel of social change," says Yeoh Seng Guan, a communications professor at Monash University Malaysia, "both in terms...