Word: tia
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...Vito Corleone. Creative chicanery: that's capitalism, Third World-style. If films weren't overtly political, they were insistently social. Some of the strongest works examined the working-class, the out-of-work, the criminally forlorn. The Brazilian City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, is a ferocious fresco of Rio slum kids who grow up to be vicious gangsters, if they don't die first. The movie's style is as hyper as the coked-up kids, but City of God manages to hold dozens of horrifying stories in some kind of coherence with...
...went down the breeze was cool and refreshing (if not always fragrant). We chugged up the river at a leisurely 6 knots and stopped for the night at Wat Kai Tia, a sleepy Thai temple on the banks of the river about 50 km from Bangkok. Our multitalented crew, who had been giving foot and head massages to the guests only minutes before, laid out a sumptuous candlelit Thai meal on the upper deck and we ate under the light of an almost full moon...
...troupe of Ghanaian drummers and dancers that performed at the Spee may have brought a taste of Africa to Mt. Auburn Street, but the way Tia K. Jurist ’04 sucked down a fifth of Jack and started dry-humping a pile of jackets that she thought was Ricard D. Nitrell ’03-’04 in the club’s front room was truly All-American. Nitrell said, “Tia seemed to be really getting frisky with those coats. It’s too bad she passed out before we could...
Chinese and Filipina women come to the U.S. territory of Saipan to pursue the American dream. They sew clothes labeled "Made in the USA." But they work in sweatshops for measly pay and are forbidden to strike or get pregnant, says Tia Lessin's strident but revelatory documentary about wage slavery, American-style...
...program should have students at all levels of matriculation, at least three to four years" in order to be accredited, says Tia M. Scales, who is manager for administration and governance at the APA's Office of Accreditation...