Word: proletarian
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Fellini's emotional center is in the past, and he feasts on the frivolity of his Romans. He re-creates Jovinelli, a proletarian vaudeville, and here the Romans for the first time take over a film rightfully theirs. The ribald workmen are hungry for sex and sentiment. They drool at drooling dancers, swoon at the strains of middle-aged tarts, and taunt the futility of a fourth-rate comic. Vaudeville was a battle between this brawling crowd and their amateur entertainers, to which Mussolini and his war were secondary attractions...
...four and grew up in poverty. He worked as a messenger boy and as an unskilled shipyard and factory worker; later he became a spokesman for warehouse workers and a union leader. A member of the Folketing since 1964, Jorgensen has never held a Cabinet post. But his proletarian background should calm the worries of Danish workers and Socialists over the EEC vote, which he supported...
...long, hard way up to power. Brezhnev's triumph springs from a mixture of perseverance, hard work and calculation -plus an ample measure of good luck. The child of Russian working-class parents, he was born in the Ukrainian town now known as Dnieprodzerzhinsk. He had the right proletarian qualifications for Soviet success, but his early career was not singularly promising. After graduating from a trade school in Kursk, he held a series of unspectacular jobs: land surveyor, factory worker, school director...
...Communists, Italy's second largest party, gained slightly in the popular vote and picked up two seats in the Chamber, raising their total to 179. But their close ideological allies, the Proletarian Socialists, lost all 23 of their seats. Proportionately, the big winners were the slightly left-of-center Republicans, who now have 14 seats in the Chamber (a gain of five) and five in the Senate (a gain of three), and the right-wing M.S.I, and Monarchists, who running together doubled their Senate Representation (from 13 to 26) and did almost as well in the Chamber (from...
Ever since the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, China's Communist Party zealots have discouraged any variety in clothing as a sign of unproletarian vanity. The In look was gray or blue coats and trousers for both men and women, and hair was cropped short...