Word: proletarians
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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SUMMERS: (overheard by audience) Sure is. You know, the power of the proletarian masses turned me towards the political light. I’ve been born again, I tell you. Once was lost but now I’m found, blind but now I see, yada yada yada. Made nice with Cornel West, joined the Green Party and whatnot. Listen, let’s give the janitors $11.35 an hour. Can I get an amen...
...What?s interesting about Kelly is that he wasn?t an imitation of the older man; he wasn?t the 40s Fred. He was the anti-Astaire. As Kelly himself said, in 1975: "Fred represents the aristocracy when he dances. And I represent the proletarian." As TIME?s Richard Schickel noted in his 1996 obit of Kelly: "Astaire put us in touch with our romantic ideals and with that perfection of manner the rest of us attain only in our more blissful daydreams. At his best, Kelly reminded us that, in reality, we are obliged to improvise our happiness with...
...Feng's unapologetic portrayal of a consumer-obsessed, spiritually bereft China dismays Beijing's snobby culture mandarins: They prefer gilded, high-art films, and the fact that Feng's proletarian movies actually make money is seen as doubly galling. "We are shocked by Feng's superficial motives, outdated film skills and astonishing lack of creativity," sniffs Beijing film critic Wang Zhen. "It falls under the banner of commercial filmmaking...
...Such proletarian computing systems are doing some impressively high-end work. A Stanford University lab recently launched Folding@home, a public project that uses the technology to investigate how proteins fold into the shapes that determine their function. Meanwhile, Distributed.net is working with the U.K.'s Sanger Centre to help map the human genome...
...jump significantly over the past six months. "They can be worn with jeans or under a $1,000 jacket, and they've replaced blouses and sweaters for the office. We're not talking about undershirts here." Part of their appeal, however, is exactly those qualities they share with their proletarian cousins: they travel well, rarely wrinkle, fit comfortably and, not incidentally, are machine washable...