Word: downtrodden
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...shift in the core of the fantasy (it's very subtle, try and follow me) is not that any downtrodden wallflower can blossom into a prom queen, but that there exists in this world a three-dimensional male creature who is beautiful, intelligent and sensitive. And I'd pay money to see that. Where else can you find one of those but in the region of unabashed fantasy...
...reads like the typical Barnicle columns Dartboard used to know and love: equal parts schmaltz, anger and righteous indignation. But Barnicle, the self-styled fighter for the downtrodden and voiceless, doesn't seem to realize he was in the wrong. In one rationalization of his behavior, he writes, "...reconstruction dialogue in a 1995 column is a clear failure to abide by today's standards. It was not always so but is now." The implication is that this 25-year veteran of the Metro page was taken by surprise by suddenly stricter standards. He also implies that the greater good accomplished...
Wherever one looks these days, be it Africa, the Middle East or Latin America, the U.S., the self-proclaimed promoter of democracy, is almost always on the side of the business elite, military juntas or tin-pot dictators--not on the side of the poor and downtrodden. Terror is the weapon the weak are wielding against the superpower. RANI-VILLEM PALO Camrose, Alta...
...movies and on television, Indians have traditionally been cast as powerful shamans, ruthless savages or downtrodden drunks living in tar-paper shacks. Not in Alexie's world. Throughout Smoke Signals--which he adapted from his 1993 short-story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven--he doesn't just challenge stereotypes, he pokes fun at them. In his tale of two young dudes who leave "the rez" on a road trip of personal enlightenment, the characters ruminate about everything from Dances with Wolves to a native staple known as fry bread. They also shoot hoops, eat at Denny...
True, being poor and impotent in a society obsessed with money and sex is awful to bear, but there must be a more pressing use of a spare million than erections for the downtrodden. The good that Viagra for the Poor might do was immediately offset by another round of bad Viagra humor--tales that walking past all those signs saying WILL WORK FOR FOOD AND VIAGRA inspired Ace to donate $1 million in seed money to the cause...