Word: proletarianized
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...their spacesuits and depressurized an airlock adjacent to Spektr in preparation for opening the airless lab's hatch, Vinogradov's left glove began leaking air. At first the cosmonauts were unconcerned, and a ground controller even joked as Vinogradov struggled to adjust his suit. "Pull it with all your proletarian force," he instructed...
...refusing to sit next to him at meetings. In 1962 he attacked Liu and Deng, screaming, "You have put the screws on me for a very long time!... Now, for once, I am going to put a scare into you!" Mao's revenge came in 1966 with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution...
...this plus Martha crafting swizzle sticks out of orange peels--yes, orange peels--not costly antique crystal. Few give credit to the stylemaker for her egalitarianism (in that spirit, one of her guests this year is the thinking man's proletarian, Dennis Franz, who swings by Martha's Connecticut home for a glass of punch). Throughout her holiday special Martha preaches cheap elegance, counseling us to wrap our gifts in inexpensive tulle and tissue paper, showing us how to make tree ornaments out of tin. "I'm trying to get back to handmade stuff," she declares. "Christmas is too rushed...
...surprise to know that the International Socialist Organization (ISO) endorsed and took part in the rally. ISO member Annie Zirin, a secretary at the Office of Career Services, was selling Socialist Worker there. "Working class people deserve to have a decent standard of living," she told me, as if PROLETARIAN had been branded on the protestors genes...
...ever since Springsteen burst on the music scene in the 1970s, his work has focused not on people who sign paychecks but on the guys and gals who have to make them stretch for a whole week. In the past few years, however, Springsteen has lost touch with his proletarian passions. Many of his most recent songs, such as Brilliant Disguise, 57 Channels (and Nothin' On) and Better Days, are more concerned with Springsteen's nouveau-riche guilt than with the clock-punchin', Roseanne-lovin...