Word: class
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deemed to be "offensive." The allegedly malodorous pair were placed on a later flight, but Freeman is crying foul. She claims that USAir simply wanted to clear two seats on an overbooked plane, and has demanded an apology from the company's president plus the cost of two first-class tickets from New York to Los Angeles for the embarrassing episode. Says she: "On the next flight, I asked a woman if we smelled, and she said...
...girlfriend. A fellow enlistee remembered "this white crow among us that didn't go along with us when we damned the war to hell." In France the white crow distinguished himself under fire. Thanks to the initiative of a Jewish officer, Corporal Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class...
...flaws were in Hitler's overconfident detractors. The Nazi Party received strong support not only from the lower middle class but also from university students and professors. The existentialist Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party. Psychologist Carl Jung grew intoxicated with "the mighty phenomenon of National Socialism, at which the whole world gazes in astonishment." A young architect named Albert Speer found that Hitler's oratory "swept away any skepticism, any reservations...
Outside the ventriloquism of fiction, Dunne, 57, sounds like a Harp from one of his own novels. Yet he seems to have had some trouble getting comfortable with his natural delivery. The problem lies in the dirty secret of class consciousness. "It took me nearly a quarter of a century to realize that here was the tension that gave me a subject," he notes, after admitting that while growing up Irish Catholic in West Hartford, Conn., he yearned to be an Episcopalian and a member of Wasp society...
...exactly, though the distinction eludes Wired. Professionally, Belushi was a gifted TV sketch artist who found the wide-screen format confining. Personally, he was a middle-class white kid with an anarchic urge to play the cool black jazzman -- so he partied and bullied and ODed just like his heroes. Early death was only the last piece of the legend this blues brother created for himself. In the film's one good laugh, a physician elicits Belushi's pharmaceutical history and then asks, deadpan, "Next of kin?" Belushi was delivered to his humongous family of fans, who mourned a talent...