Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Lower Class...
...demons of the California Dream. Instead, Schrader concocted a laughable montage of silly sequences, an absurd plot and bad lines that reaches climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder that he didn't commit in this kinky-trick movie that John Travolta should have made. Schrader filled his script with coincidences and absurd plot devices that are so ridiculous, so inconceivable they...
...state of black America. Last week's installment, like its predecessors, was grim. Describing blacks as "boat people without boats," Jordan said that their average wages had shrunk from 61% of white wages in 1969 to 59% in 1978. And despite the reports of a growing black middle class, the number of blacks in that category remained stationary at about 25% throughout the 1970s; so did the larger number of black poor...
...1930s or dissident intellectuals in 1980-as traitors and fifth columnists. Ideology is important partly because it gives the Soviet leaders a sense of global mission and distinguishes their imperialism from that of the czars. But even when promulgating slogans about their obligations to the international working class, Lenin, Stalin and their successors devoted themselves to shoring up the security of the U.S.S.R. Making the world safe for socialism has always been a euphemism for protecting Soviet interests, just as championing "wars of national liberation" has been a pretext for installing comradely governments and thwarting the U.S. in the Third...
...History Department takes "more than a common interest in women candidates because we would like to appoint women," but to appoint to a woman on the basis of sex would create "second class citizens," MacCaffrey added...