Word: local
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's a group of horn-rimmed scenesters that hang out at Buckeroo's Mercantile on Mass. Avenue who know cool things, throw cooler parties, and are the guardians of a trove of local treasures. Last week, when I dropped in, Diane was going about her merry way dusting feathers and listening to the faintest, scantest little French fairy-voice. I live for moments like that: walking into a room and being hit in the heart by a most unexpected, most dreamed-of sound. That was the beginning of my controlled adoration of Suzi Lee, Slide bandmember, who has just...
...this were not enough, Harvard increasingly employs subcontracted labor, including guards from Security Systems Incorporated and janitors from UNICCO Service Company. These workers, many of whom were hired after union buyouts over the summer, do not have local union representation or access to health and other benefits. Without the guarantee of a $10 living wage, subcontracted laborers are among the lowest paid members of the university community. Although Harvard has not released figures, estimates suggest that subcontracted workers comprise the largest number of underpaid employees, perhaps as many as 1,000 people. The Living Wage Campaign--a coalition of students...
...Burton has distanced himself from the classic short story by Washington Irving--Irving's work was titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The plot is drastically different. In the tale, immortalized in a short Disney cartoon, Ichabod Crane is a thin, lanky schoolteacher with romantic designs on a local landowner's daughter, Katrina Van Tassel. In Crane's way is Brom Van Brunt, a big lug who frightens Crane with a story about the Headless Horseman--a rumored supernatural denizen known for his penchant for swiping the heads of the locals. Crane has an encounter with this spirit...
...Burton's film, however, gleefully embraces the existence of the Horseman; the trailer begins with the decapitated equestrian removing 12 pounds of ugly fat from a local. Furthermore, Ichabod Crane is no longer a mild-mannered, homely schoolteacher but a snobby constable from New York City, played by Johnny Depp. Many new characters have been added, including several new supernatural denizens of the superstitious town. The result is what promises to be a dark, complex, and, as always with Burton, thoroughly weird and wonderful film, a cross between Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, with just a hint...
...imposed sweeping requirements on state and local governments, public facilities and private businesses to make their services accessible to the disabled...