Word: downtrodden
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...easy one to understand; as the story unfolds, the layers go deeper and deeper, with nuance upon nuance adding to its complexity. On one level, it is about the contrast between Marat, the revolutionary trapped in a bathtub by skin disease, and Sade, who denounces the French downtrodden's uprising in favor of a more passionate kind of violence. On another, the play is about the thin line between sanity and lunacy: the inmates' presentation of the world seems less and less crazy as their play progresses. On yet another level, it is about the class struggle...
Canal Zone is three hours long and somewhat repetitive, but its temperature rises steadily as it proceeds. At first it seems that Wiseman has made this film only to poke obvious fun at colonialism: he includes some all too pointed shots of the downtrodden Panamanians who perform the Americans' menial labor. By the time Canal Zone reaches its Memorial Day climax, however, it becomes as bitter as Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
Antonietta and Gabriele have little in common except their loneliness, but they meet and become fast friends. Their relationship soon provides the film makers with an excuse to explore the sexual underpinnings of Fascist ideology. As the downtrodden Antonietta falls in love with the sensitive Gabriele, she suddenly begins to question the macho ethic of her tyrannical husband. She senses, too, that there may be a correlation between her miserable married life and the authoritarianism of Mussolini's Italian state. Even though Gabriele eventually reveals himself to be a homosexual, Antonietta takes him to bed. Having discovered freedom...
...taught here, who benefits from the current legal system. "How many sharecroppers," Nader asks his Law School audience, "do you think sue Minute Maid?" For a few hours, Turow says, he was convinced that Nader was right; he could use his education for a political purpose, to help the downtrodden rather than to do the down trodding. But as he drove home, he returned to his previous stand: his enemy was the pressure to achieve, not the system that creates that pressure...
Jordan's citation: "Powerful, outspoken champion of the downtrodden, she skillfully uses the political and legislative process to make our plenty fairly serve the needs...