Word: blue-collar
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...When one of the employees roared up to the plant in his auto shouting "We won! We won!" some of his friends figured he was just kidding around. After all, such good fortune was hard to believe: against odds of 6 million to 1, who could believe that 21 blue-collar workers, all but two of them immigrants from such places as Poland, Paraguay, China, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Germany, would prove to be joint possessors of one of three winning claims to New York State's unprecedented $41 million lottery prize...
...women, immigration to the U.S. is a transforming process. The experience of earning money is central to their delighted discovery of their own worth. Some 50% of immigrant women work, about the same as U.S. women. Even for those who have traded their white-collar jobs at home for blue-collar jobs here, the drop in status is offset by the satisfaction of a significant rise in income and the hope of moving on. Anna Cruz-Vasquez is 56 and divorced. She came alone from the Dominican Republic in 1977 and with a garment-industry job that has never paid...
Advertising's defenders say that the old starchy ways served a limited clientele. "Blue-collar people with an injury feel more comfortable about calling when they've watched an ad," says Miami's Philip Auerbach. His firm spends $3 million annually on advertising and gets back eight times that much in resulting fees. That kind of return, added to last week's Supreme Court decision, bodes ill for those already tired of listening to lawyer pitchmen. "The only way to sell legal ads," warns Auerbach, "is to beat the clients over the head so they scream your name in their...
...knew what it was getting in Serra's commission. It saw artist renderings and models. It did not expect a cute bronze of Peter Pan. Serra's massive walls and propped assemblies of steel and lead plate are among the most familiar images in recent American sculpture -- blue-collar minimalism, a pugnacious combination of muteness with extreme manipulations of space. Nobody could call his work accessible, but there is no denying his influence on other artists. To take only one example, the black granite notch of Maya Ying Lin's monument to the Viet Nam dead in Washington...
There is not one honest, blue-collar type laugh in all of Rustler's Rhapsody. Director Hugh Wilson presents us with such a ridiculous wild west world that the movie becomes too stupid to be funny. Wilson interjects too many anachronisms into the dialogue and uses too many stupid sight gags. "I hold a copyright on that one," asserts Rex upon finding Pete singing by the fire. In another scene Rex and Pete fall off a cliff. Then we get to see Rex's horse dance. After a while--long about 20 minutes--the jokes wear thin...