Word: underclass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...term "people of color" ignores all these differences, suggesting that unity should be felt between these groups because all non-white minorities in America suffer discrimination. That may be true, but each group tends to experience discrimination in different degrees. For example, Blacks have long been an underclass in America and racism against Blacks has been institutionalized in a way that it hasn't for other groups...
...larger issues. "The campaign may have seemed sour and petty," Isaacson says, "but we tried to find interesting ways to cover it." He points with special pride to a series of essays in which the magazine explored the issues that received short shrift from the candidates: health care, the underclass, homelessness, relations with the Soviets. The Grapevine section took readers behind the scenes for exclusive candid snapshots of the campaign. TIME also kept a close watch on the coterie of aides managing the candidates. "It was the year of the handlers," says Isaacson. "When I was out on the trail...
...political lexicon: Monkey Business, the character issue, attack videos, plagiarism, wimp, handlers, sound bites, flag factories, tank ride, negative spots, the A.C.L.U., Willie Horton and likability. Match them with all the pressing national concerns that were never seriously discussed: from the Japanese economic challenge to the plight of the underclass. As the voters trudge off to the polls with all the enthusiasm of dental patients, one can almost hear their collective lament: "What has America done as a nation to deserve an election like this...
...women at the film's moral core. They also divert us from Ophuls' central frustration. He clearly wanted to show that Barbie was protected by Americans and other friends in high places, but he cannot prove it. Barbie owed his long freedom to his own international underclass of thugs, ideologues and opportunists. It is as a reminder of that group's influence -- and not as an inflated moral statement -- that Hotel Terminus has its considerable, unintended value...
...Behind the rosy economic numbers of the Reagan boom, middle- class Americans feel squeezed. Once again this election poses a critical question: Are you better off? -- A backlash for the A. C. L. U. -- On the road with Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen, this week' s debaters. -- Shrinking the Underclass -- a campaign essay...