Word: collared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago was mischief and political subversion on a grand scale. The demonstrators, under the gaze of television cameras, provoked Daley's police to rage. There were unarticulated class antagonisms at work -- many of the demonstrators being children of comparative affluence, the police coming from the city's blue-collar and ethnic neighborhoods. The adrenaline of that difference gave the clubs more force when the cops at last cut loose and went after the kids' ribs and skulls...
...America the great uprising on the political and cultural left was answered by the rising of George Wallace's army on the right. Wallace, truculent and charismatic in a darkling way, ran a third-party campaign that attracted a large following among blue-collar workers, ethnics and Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion...
Outside the pavilion's 21-TV lobby, a kimono-clad granny is being photographed in Goofy's welcoming embrace. White-collar workers in blue blazers and dark ties are shuffling around the lines for the world's only Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour. A girl in a warm-up jacket that reads IT IS ARGUED THAT DOUBLE SUICIDE IS THE SUBLIME CULMINATION OF LOVE placidly sips melon juice. Nothing disturbs the clean blue air except high tinkling cries of "Kawaii!" (Isn't it cute!) "Look," coos an extravagantly chic young mother to her three-year-old son, dapper in black leather...
...strike. Arab towns throughout Israel shut down their stores and schools. Some 170,000 Israeli Arabs failed to report to work, as did 80,000 Palestinians from the territories. The strike crippled part of the Israeli economy, which has become heavily dependent on Arab labor, especially for such blue-collar jobs as construction, street cleaning and garbage pickup...
...WWOR, the Secaucus, N.J.-based superstation, Downey's verbal slugfest has made Phil's and Oprah's "lively" discussions look like sherry-sipping college seminars. Critics are appalled ("A disgrace to television," said Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News), but ratings are rising, and blue-collar fans are flocking to the studio for tapings. After just two weeks, all the seats were booked through the end of the year...