Word: put-upon
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...Christmas -- the holiday as we know it, with lavish presents and greeting cards, with liberal sentiment and family gatherings, and with the spirit of generosity helping to stanch the guilty suspicion that we hadn't been charitable enough on the other 364 days. Shopkeepers and toymakers can thank Dickens; put-upon parents can blame him, though the commercial excesses perpetrated in the name of Christmas were the last thing this radical social reformer had in mind...
Dante (Brian O'Halloran) has the night shift at the Quick Stop convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey. Bright, dour and put-upon, he wastes or redeems his time by fretting about life -- about everything but his place in it, which he accepts with a readiness that annoys his friend Randal (Jeff Anderson). Clerks is a nothing-much-happens -and-ain't-that-the-big-truth? movie that gets considerable mileage from a couple of white guys, and their friends and customers, sitting around talking...
...woman. La Strada, Cabiria, Juliet and Ginger and Fred (1983) are four sympathetic diagnoses of vital women used by weak men. They are also, of course, dynamic showcases for the talents of Giulietta Masina, who for 49 years was Signora Fellini. In his films she was the average, put-upon feminine spirit, just as Marcello Mastroianni was the gallantly anguished soul of modern...
...consciousness, surfacing at Roseanne's side on prime time television, as superheroes in DC Comics and on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers fuss over showering habits in the barracks. But last week, as they prepared for the largest march on Washington in six years, gay men became the - first put-upon minority in the country to have struggled toward a moment of national definition only to find themselves suddenly redefined. Here they were, about to sit down face to face with the President in the Oval Office, when a major national survey abruptly shrank their population to a tenth of what...
...form of music can be considered fully resurrected so long as people suppose it was all written by Cole Porter, with maybe a little help from George Gershwin. It has to start ringing bells with today's geniuses as well -- and here the spotlight narrows sharply to one put-upon hero, the great Cy Coleman, who, with hits like Sweet Charity and Barnum, already has the honor of the American musical riding on his other shoulder. His classic songs, such as Hey, Look Me Over, If My Friends Could See Me Now, Witchcraft and Big Spender, are near...