Word: collared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...right, keep a cool head." He needed one on Sept. 3, when seven or eight cops descended on him as he was leaving the corner deli. They jumped out of an unmarked van and, according to Mills, knocked over his 1-year-old son in their haste to collar Mills. They frisked him, then shoved a camera in his face. He says he heard an officer say, "We are taking your picture now for anything you might do in the future." They then let him go without charging him with any crime...
Dreams, on the other hand, is old-school nostalgia: a misty-lens look at the past that shows how the '60s' social change roiled one blue-collar family: Mom is dissatisfied; Dad feels the patriarchy slipping away; daughter Meg is seduced by the forbidden libidinal beat of Motown. The Bandstand story line, with archival footage courtesy of co-producer Dick Clark, provides a baby-boomer-friendly sound track. (On TV, American history is the history of TV.) Plots about feminism and civil rights flatter us about how far we have come. And the blue-collar, Catholic setting is free...
...struggle, in each race, has been to prove liberal stripes while appealing to a broad swath of people. The senate seat for which Galluccio and Barrios vie, along with relative unknown Carlos DeMaria, contains Cambridge’s wealthier neighborhoods as well as several nearby blue-collar towns...
...district for which Decker and Demakis struggle—newly redrawn—is about evenly split by the Charles River. It contains Boston’s tony Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods but 45 percent of the district falls in Cambridge’s more blue collar areas...
Barrios has a “progressive stink,” Winters said, while Galluccio has more of the blue-collar local accent and look...