Word: slaving
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Because her husband was often sold to another plantation, the woman slave often had to raise her children while performing heavy work in the fields and other traditionally male tasks. But because the Black man "was not allowed to do any of the things it was said at the time men were supposed to do" and the Black woman merely filled a void, she "has been punished for doing what any other woman would have done in a crisis by being labeled a superwoman and a freak...
...professed a simple ideology; it hoped the "wage-slave" system would fall to be replaced by industrial democracy. It would be fair to call them "reds" though they were far from dogmatic. And their tactics matched the simplicity of their thought--the Wobblies organized and agitated wherever they went, setting up soapboxes, pasting up posters like the ones you occasionally see in the Square, big cartoons of strong men smashing the state. Pennants carried the One Big Union legend; there were no lapel pins, no sterling silver. Even the leaders were just old organizers; Haywood had learned how to blow...
...long, tedious course of the film. As a display of his power, he makes ridiculous, arbitrary decisions, rapes several people (and a horse), and kills a whole lot more. What motivates this evil monster? Has the lust for power driven Caligula mad? Is he the master or the slave of his decadent society? Who cares? Not the makers of Caligula, since they dispense with such trivialities as plot, character, and thematic development, in favor of the juicier and more exploitative aspects of the story. The film is a two-and-a-half-hour parade of gruesome tortures and unexciting...
Knee-deep in sheet music and charts, and surrounded by cinema heavyweights, Waits can't envision returning to his self-imposed exile in New York. "It's impossible now. One from the Heart is going to keep me a love slave till February...
...separate from that." Bland relishes a good smile:" (The delegates) they're like this, see (crosses his arms in front of him) handcuffed." He doesn't listen to the suggestion that the push to free delegates stinks of hypocrisy, that the same people who assailed Carter as a tyrannical slave merchant originally backed the reform which gave more power to the primary voter, that if Kennedy were the probable choice, this debate would not have surfaced...