Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is unimportant, for Blink has two terrific things going for it. One is director Michael Apted's gritty use of Chicago as a setting. He makes you feel the wind in your bones, and he puts its blue-collar toughness in your face all the time. The other is Madeleine Stowe...
...Carter' home run. Most viewers were pulling for the blue collar Philadelphia Phillies over the Toronto Blue Jays. But with one swing of the bat, Carter made the 1993 series memorable. The vision of Carter jumping around the base paths, with his arms flailing and that wide-eyed-seven-year-old-Christmas-day grin on his face, will go down as one of the truly great moments in baseball history...
...During all that fuss about ring around the collar, nobody asked why he didn't wash his neck," Kilbourne said...
...roils the American workplace. Organizers seem stymied at every level of job: while hamburger flippers and sales clerks come and go too quickly to provide a stable base for membership, professionals such as bankers, lawyers, geologists and engineers feel little kinship with a labor movement rooted in blue-collar traditions. All that has left unions running in place. Organizers for the Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents grocery checkers and other clerks, signed up 500,000 new members over the past five years only to see the net increase dwindle to 30,000 as a result of layoffs...
Kelley is 39, Detroit Irish and blue collar. He is an ex-Catholic but in some crucial respects a Catholic still, and his work is charged with religious references and rhapsodic diatribes of moral insult that verge on panic. Jesus makes frequent guest appearances, and so do felt banners that parody the soppy semiabstract devotional art of the all-but-forgotten Sister Corita Kent, a liberal nun of the '60s. I AM USELESS TO THE CULTURE, BUT GOD LOVES ME, one of | Kelley's banners reads. He is as deeply immersed in the religious aura of his infancy, pre-Vatican...