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...next career choice was more dubious. White Man's Burden, due out later this year, is a flat fantasy about a future in which American blacks and whites exchange social status--the former becoming the ruling class, the latter doing the menial work. But Travolta delivers a heartbreaking portrayal of a desperate working stiff, unfairly fired from his job and turning to crime in order to support his family. Next will come Broken Arrow, a John Woo action film, and a mess of high-concept, high-profile pictures that signify his return to Hollywood's A list...
...infected is look around: at the top of the power hierarchy-filling more than 90% of top corporate-leadership slots and a grossly disproportionate share of managerial and professional positions-you see white men. Meanwhile, you tend to find minorities clustered in the kind of menial roles-busing dishes, unloading trucks-that our parents warned were waiting for us too if we didn't get our homework done...
Making fun of the administrative minutiaerequired of the vice president, Liston evaluatedhis ability to do menial tasks like takingattendance...
...great era of frontier settlement was coming to an end. After being processed at Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay and other immigration centers, millions of these rural folk found themselves confined to the mean streets of urban ghettos like Manhattan's , festering Lower East Side, working at menial jobs and crammed into narrow railroad flats that lacked both heat and privacy...
Freed from the anchor of realism, fiction writers have drifted off in all sorts of strange directions. Huxley's idea was that cloning based on embryo splitting (he called it "bokanovskification") would be used to mass-produce drones for performing menial labor. Huxley's Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons were separated from the higher-class Alphas and Betas not just by economic status but also by biologically engineered physical and intellectual traits...