Word: collared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There are buildings going up all over the place--[houses with] three-car garages, eight to 10 rooms, four bathrooms and conversions to condominiums," he says. "The blue-collar population just gets priced...
Before there were webcams, there was Frederick Wiseman. Like the Internet cameras that film cubicles and street intersections nonstop, Wiseman creates unblinking images--exhaustive, exhausting, narration-free cinema-verite documentaries. The 4-hr. 8-min. Belfast lingers over daily life in a small blue-collar town: marriages, doctors' exams, factories, a read-through of Death of a Salesman. While Wiseman's vignettes can be mesmeric, they're too often simply tedious and excessive. And it smacks of self-congratulation for the public-TV gentry to do these working-class commoners the mere favor of acknowledging--as the Salesman reference suggests...
...Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas. Though his victory was overshadowed by Clinton's famous Comeback-Kid spin on his second-place finish, the late senator was an honorable and intelligent candidate. The irony of Governor A. Paul Cellucci's delivery of his State of the State address from the blue-collar city of Lowell, Tsongas' hometown, was therefore particularly striking to this Massachusetts resident. Cellucci's administration, which has been rightly charged with abusing the perks of power, was suddenly making the point of visiting a town of real people...