Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forward and another train moving backward, when coupled with Manuela's voice-over of the history and purpose for her journey detract from Almodvar's intention that the scene serve as a point of transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like...
...Slowly, and almost unconsciously, banal daily events take on a greater depth of meaning, because not only is Rosetta poor, she and her mother live in a near-animalistic state. Rosetta earns paltry sums of money by selling repatched clothes to a local second-hand shop, catches fish with a crude wire-and-bottle and can only ease the physical pain of abdominal cramps with a hair-dryer pressed against her belly. The alcoholic mother is reduced to exchanging oral sex for rent and electricity bills, and the two live in a dismal trailer park ironically named "Le Grand Canyon...
...council is a somewhat pathetic organization that may not inspire the interest of the best people on this campus. Or, there may no longer be any people deserving of campus-wide leadership. Perhaps all that remain are local deities. Either way, this year's race for council president is shaping up to be yet another embarrassment to the notion of student government at Harvard, and more sadly, a sign that the purported greatness of Harvard undergraduates may be on the wane...
...black pants to the sneakers that pass for shoes from far away. He attaches a walkie-talkie and a hefty set of keys to a belt that snaps together with plastic clasps. His hat with a #157 badge covers his thinning white hair. When Billy speaks, he mixes his local accent with phrases such as "one might say" and "so to speak...
...SEIU Local 285 represents the workers of the Wingate at Wilbraham Nursing Home, which is owned by Gerald Schuster. The local charges the company with thwarting workers' attempts to negotiate a first contract at the facility...