Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...college students and professional activists, despite the obvious appeal it might have for less-skilled laborers who stand to lose their jobs. Sure, part of this is attributable to the cultural antagonisms of liberal intellectuals and lower class workers. During the Vietnam War, for instance, polls showed that blue-collar Americans disliked both the war and anti-war protesters (The Democratic Party's recent epidemic of flag-waving is a worthwhile attempt to address this problem...
Andrew Borowitz '80 produced and wrote "Dreams", a series about young musicians struggling to put together a rock band while supporting themselves in blue-collar jobs...
Borowitz said the idea for the show came when executive producers of "Dreams" John Peters and Peter Guber, who produced the hit movie "Flash Dance," told him they wanted a situation comedy with a blue-collar background and a lot of music...
...selling models as the Pontiac Fiero and Buick Century. But as the selective strike continued last week, more and more workers began to feel the impact of the partial walkout. At its peak, the strike affected 40 plants and 110,000 workers, one-third of GM's blue-collar work force...
...neglect a matter of economics or racism? "Hollywood is too dumb to be racist," charges Actor Yaphet Kotto (Blue Collar, Brubaker). "This town is all about dough-that's the crime." For Leon Isaac Kennedy (Penitentiary, Body and Soul), the problem is the industry's "blockbuster mentality. They want 100% of the audience pie. They'd rather not go for slices...