Word: proletarianism
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...invulnerability first earns him a role as gorilla soldier in the army of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), a car and drug dealer. In the class structure of Sunbelt crime, Frank is the middle-class middle man, tangling fatally with both the coke aristocracy of Bolivia and Tony, his proletarian successor. He has two things Tony wants: power and a bored blond mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer), with a Kew-pie-doll mouth soured into a who-cares sneer and the bad habit of powdering her nose from the inside. Tony also develops a paternal letch for his teen-age sister (Mary Elizabeth...
During World War II, Josip Broz Tito sheltered his partisans in the caves and crannies that honeycomb the hills, and in 1942 Tito's future Foreign Minister, Koca Popovic, led the First Proletarian Brigade across a plateau called Freezing Point. Temperatures fell to -40° F, and 200 troops lost either their limbs or lives. This is where the Nordic events, the ski jumping and the biathlon will be held in February...
...Britain could be in the process of making Labor "the party of the past." Waller's analysis shows that since the 1970s Britain has become a society of skilled workers and homeowners, a middle-class nation that no longer can respond to the Labor Party's outmoded proletarian appeal. Kinnock's dilemma is that he must change his party without risking either a split in its ranks or a revolt by the suspicious hard-line left that gave him its support. The new leader likes to say, "I can work with anyone in the Labor Party...
...World War I had destroyed the distance, but that was not yet clear. If the world was considered at all, it seemed somewhat menacing?especially the new Communist regime in Russia, which was seen as a fragile but ominous experiment (TIME wrote: "The czarist oligarchy has given way to proletarian absolutism"). Even so, the globe still appeared relatively ordered, like a neatly colored 19th century map, and it seemed that its parts could be kept in place...
...this we knew nothing in 1972. Something called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was in full swing. But then, as now, it was as if we were feeling through a membrane: we could sense shapes, forms and fears, almost touch them. But we could not see through the membrane...