Word: collared
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Carry Me Home's main contribution is a massively detailed account of decades of unseemly collaboration between the genteel "Big Mules" who controlled Birmingham's industrial economy and the blue-collar terrorists whom they employed to do their dirty work against not only blacks but also unionists and anyone else who posed a threat to the established order. Rather than issue orders directly to Klan-connected thugs like Robert Chambliss, the organizer of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, the Big Mules used intermediaries like public-safety commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor. His brutal tactics produced the shocking television pictures that...
...couple of reasons. It will be Nonzee's third movie, and his first two, Dan Bireley and the Young Gangsters and Nang Nak, both broke box office records in Thailand. Nang Nak went on to tour the European festival circuit, where Nonzee was proclaimed something of a wing-collar art house director, giving Thailand a seat at the ongoing banquet of honor being served up to Asian filmmakers. Indeed, the new movie is being produced by Hong Kong's Peter Ho-Sun Chan, who directed The Love Letter for Dreamworks in 1999, and Nonzee is pushing the production schedule...
...will it ever be the same? This was the year NASCAR, with new venues, new rules and a new TV deal, was making a push to add another rung of American popularity. The sport had already grown far beyond its original blue-collar southern fan base; the NASCAR traveling show already packed 200,000-seat arenas with ease wherever it went. Now, with the Fox deal, it was bidding for the Sunday-armchair cultural prominence of NFL football, all the while hoping that the infusion of money, marketing and the scrutiny that goes with them would never cause...
Many in the men's hometown, a small blue-collar community about 25 miles from Dartmouth, said they were shocked by the possbility of the teens' connection to the murders. Many described them as positive and having goods senses of humor, incapable of murder...
...Earnhardt was the grandstands, the blue-collar throngs that fill them week in and week out, leaving rivers of spilt beer and spit tobacco in their wake. He was one of them. But NASCAR is now after the rest, all the people in America that Dale Earnhardt was not, and the circuit should count itself lucky that mainstream America is getting at least one good long look at him while they...