Word: proletariat
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...hard-working commoner: fat, bald, and leaning on a mop. Either way, hidden in the title is a good recommendation for Harvardians: if we can learn to live like everyone else, then when the inevitable class revolution comes, we can simply dress up like them, too, and the proletariat will have to be content with smashing Yale and Princeton instead. Play Money, or, How I Quit My Day Job and Struck It Rich in Virtual Loot Farming by Julian Dibbell While hardcore gamers might view gaming as a “night job” akin to prostitution, slam poetry...
...from everywhere—estates, dealers, auctions, right off the street,” she says. “I sell wearable clothes, but during Halloween it all becomes costumes.” Those looking for more everyday duds can head to the appropriately named Proletariat, which caters mostly to male clientele. The decor is skateboarder dorm-room style, and the clothes have that “I just rolled out of bed and threw this old thing on” sort of look—in a good way. Owner Kerry Simon, a master of this affordable style, originally...
...archaic literary name for Hong Kong). It was a masterpiece of editing, and a stunning publishing debut: here was a major photographic talent, arriving on the bookshelf or coffee table in a fully formed state and with images that practically hummed with love for the city and its proletariat. "I was born here, I have always lived here and all my work is here," Yau said in the foreword. In his sense of place, he was to Hong Kong what Robert Doisneau was to Paris - a chronicler in black and white of the sooty streets and ordinary people...
...versions circulated in samizdat as well as the Western press. According to one report Yeltsin had voiced widely held popular grievances about ordinary Russians' standard of living. "Comrades," he began, "I find it hard to explain to a worker why, in the 70th year of the dictatorship of the proletariat, he still has to stand in line for sausage that has more starch than meat...
...amenities to its fortunate inhabitants. All students enjoy private bedrooms—hence the much-invoked “Singles for Life” slogan. The upper floors of the high-rise boast panoramas of the Boston skyline. The Soviet-style Brutalist aesthetic endows the courtyard with an ineffable proletariat charm...