Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old self made million hire who rose from a blue collar background in Chebea to head one of the nation's largest privately owned companies has donated $20 million to the Harvard Medical School...
...with a pretty girleen (Emer McCourt) who wants to be a saloon singer. If this sounds like the plot of The Crying Game, don't blame scripter Bill Jesse; Riff-Raff was made a year before Neil Jordan's gender bender. Loach's film is a hymn to blue-collar, multiracial mateyness, and you needn't plow through the thickly accented dialogue (subtitled for American ears) to guess his social agenda. The overlords of capitalism are Riff-Raff's real rats...
Last night Gustafson was the last player to head off the ice and into the locker room after the second and third periods. Karmanos was the first to thank goalie Aaron Israel for his solid play in net, and this blue-collar line that usually doesn't get much attention finally got some...
Wojewodski's successor, Irene Lewis, demonstrates her own facility for nurturing new work in Escape from Happiness, a high-energy absurdist comedy about a nutty blue-collar family entangled with drug dealing, pornography, police corruption and an overabundance of soup. The play is at Center Stage through March 14, then moves on to Yale, which is co-producing the show...
...alleged MODsters and their ilk do not fit the standard image of a hacker: the wealthy, suburban geek who trespasses on computers just for fun. These cyberpunks are ethnically mixed (from blacks and Hispanics to Italians and Lithuanians), favor close-cropped hip-hop haircuts and live in urban, blue-collar neighborhoods. They fight rival gangs with cheap computers, not sticks or knives. Some are big drug users; most are simply addicted to what Rosenfeld calls the "adrenaline rush of computer power, which is better than sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll...