Word: janitorism
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...Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told him she had breast cancer. Eight operations and a nervous breakdown later, she is worried about losing her new lover, a gas-station attendant. There's the Chicago doctor whose divorce and emergency-room stress...
Birthday" and "The Janitor...
Despite the aesthetic pleasure (and sick glee) to be enjoyed from the above short's the best films of the bunch are also the funniest. "The Janitor," an Oscar nominee by Canadian Vanessa Schwartz, uses mellow vernacular and quirky sketches of a naked old man's body to bring a janitor of the universe to life. Lines describing the moon as a "sure" nub dustcatcher" don't hurt either...
...data? It does what brains are designed to do: it simplifies and serves up the quickie generalizations that are meant to guide us through a complex world. Thus when we see a black colleague, who may be an engineer or a judge, the brain, in its innocence, announces helpfully, "Janitor-type approaching, wearing a suit...
...field during scrimmages and refuse to play. And there's Max--the only player on our team to draw a red card for inappropriate language--who a few weeks ago slipped away from the gym at the school where we were practicing and was caught by a janitor in a (previously locked) third-grade classroom, tearing down posters and overturning desks. He's currently serving a two-week suspension from practice (without...