Word: ageism
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...case, his daughter has run out of tolerance and booked him a ticket for a cross-country bus tour without his counsel or consent. In Madam’s case, her children hastily ship her off to a nursing home. In each instance, the central conflict is ageism, not racism. Half of the film is taken up by Mr. Shi trying to talk to his daughter, sometimes in English, other times in Chinese, but always painstakingly slow. It’s ironic that Mr. Shi spends most his time trying to get his daughter to talk, because the best scenes...
Each Saturday from January to June, teams of mostly middle school students spend the morning learning about an important social issue and exploring opportunities for citizen activism. In the afternoon they perform a service project and reflect on solutions for positive change. Issues they tackle include hunger and homelessness, ageism, HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse, racism and personal conflict...
Maybe the problem is ageism...
...father's birth, Rossellini, 54, wrote In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini and made the film My Dad Is 100 Years Old. She spoke to TIME's Jeff Chu about her dad's belly, today's Bergman and ageism...
...there's ageism in modeling and acting. I'm dying to see Diane Keaton or Sissy Spacek more, and we don't see them as much. The story you hear over and over is about seducing a man and getting married, but women do much more than that. Maybe it will help having more women as directors, heads of cosmetic companies or heads of studios. It's the whole system...