Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There appears to be no real explanation for the state's unusually slow service, other than the fact that 90 percent of the P&L workers are women from around East Boston's Chinatown area, most of whom have difficulties speaking English. The district is already weak in its political representation. It's easy to see how the prospect of 500 unemployed and angry Asian women might not threaten or pressure state officials at the Division of Employment Security (DES) into action...
...laid-off women, meanwhile, are in urgent need of the English instruction and vocational skill training programs that the state had promised to establish several months ago. Without these services, most of the women are incapable of seeking reemployment on their own. Language barriers turn many away from employment offices where they are often told their records can not be found...
...ordinary show. Subtitled "A Pop Myth," the setting and costumes are an amalgam of Victorian Gothic and MTV Modernism, and almost all the dialogue has been replaced by lip-synching to pop songs by the likes of Sting and Kate Bush. Keshishian has transformed Catherine, Heathcliff, and Linton from English nobility to pop stars, and added supporting characters like an agent (Nicholas C. Bienstock '88) and a washed up singer (Mona A. Khalil...
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter), an understated but passionate girl from Surrey, is on holiday in Florence when she meets and unconsciously falls in love with an impetuous, progressive-thinking English lad, George Emerson (Julian Sands...
They meet over dinner at the Pensione Bertolini, a home away from home for respectable English tourists, managed, appropriately enough, by a cockney signora. Overhearing Lucy and her cousin complain that their room lacks a view of the Arno River, George's father (Denholm Elliott) offers to exchange the two ladies' rooms for his and his son's, which do possess the coveted perspective. Such an amenity is useless to him, he explains, for "my vision is within." So is that of his son, who is perhaps overly introspective, a characteristic telegraphed by his habit of constantly drawing question marks...