Word: collectivities
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...Perhaps the film's most surprising twist is its humor. When an unwitting real estate agent comes to collect his rent from the bed-confined couple, Candy tells him: "We're junkies; I'm a hooker; he's hopeless." When they move to the country, Candy complains that their living room is too dark, so Dan knocks a skylight through the roof. In this way, Armfield lets light into their darkest hours, bringing a heightened sense of mortality that seems to stem from his own childhood. "When I was 13 years old, my mum was given six months to live...
...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), the gathered support will be used next month to help union leaders negotiate a more favorable contract for dining hall employees. Their current contract expires in June. Dining hall workers are currently not guaranteed work over summer recess, nor are they allowed to collect unemployment benefits for those three months, said Adams House cook Bill Nicolson. They are also not paid during Christmas vacation, intercession, and spring break. As a result, dining hall workers are often forced to use their 10 paid vacation days to lessen the impact of the unpaid weeks during intercession...
...counterintuitive as it appears, it’s this decision that gives their arguments merit—if you really know what’s best for other people, you should trust that your words alone will inspire them to act accordingly. New media sources facilitate agreement; they collect signatures, spam representatives, and organize rallies, sometimes before their audience knows that another side exists...
...Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, who also represents the plaintiffs. And the LWV of Florida claims the impact of the fines could be devastating. "The League of Women Voters' entire annual budget of $80,000 would be decimated if only sixteen voter registration applications collected by its volunteers were lost in a flood, or if its volunteers took 11 days to submit the few hundred applications they often collect during one day's work," according to the lawsuit...
...tradition that's been rich and sustained over a long period of time," says Susan Hunt, curator of the 1999 show "Terre Napol?on: Australia Through French Eyes." "So this hasn't just come from nowhere." Indeed, during the 1950s, Paris-based artist Karel Kupka was the first to collect Arnhem Land barks as pieces of art, not anthropology; many of them will be displayed for the first time in MQB. "He was the first to recognize the individuality of each artist," says French-born Apolline Kohen, director of Maningrida Arts and Culture, creative home to John Mawurndjul. In fact...