Word: bourgeoises
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Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska's observation that "aborigines and immigrants and poorer Australians don't have much to do with the sexy, healthy, multi-orgasmic highly successful Australian woman who jog, drink cocktails and relax in their bathtubs" points out that the sexual revolution has been primarily a bourgeois one...
Yet in urban areas where the insurgency is trying to attract the middle class, attitudes toward capitalist life-styles are more flexible. Front men in Manila, dressed in business suits and traveling in shiny cars, some equipped with phones, often make contacts in trendy restaurants or respectable offices. So enamored...
BUT THE CHALLENGER was different; it belonged to the ideal world of technology and TV where everything works, not the real world of warts and wounded people. The shock of death where it is least expected was traumatic for a pampered bourgeois culture--a society in which the old and...
Interestingly, however, the meeting underscored an ideological disagreement that still exists within the party despite Deng's success in moving China away from Maoism. At the closing session, Deng chose to appease hard-liners by emphasizing, "In our propaganda, we must firmly oppose bourgeois liberalism, that is, publicity that favors...
Women and politics, not to mention men, take a thorough drubbing in The Good Terrorist. The heroine, Alice Mellings, 36, is thick-witted, tubby and held in thrall by her "admiration and wistful love" for Jasper Willis, a loutish layabout who also happens to be a homosexual. Alice's adult...