Word: tortillas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work-less than a third of the U.S. minimum wage of $3.35 an hour. Polish refugees have been found cleaning out oil-storage tanks in New Jersey for $2 an hour or less. At a small factory in Chicago, shifts of Mexicans working twelve-hour days keep two tortilla-making machines going around the clock. The din is deafening, and the heat from the ovens almost unbearable. Says one employee, a 25-year-old mother of two: "It's like hell...
Unlike Oliver and Jenny Barrett, who were nearly perfect, Segal has wilted under Mammon's gaze and added Oliver's Story to the screenplay-novel genre. And now comes Man, Woman and Child, the kind of novel a writer produces only thrice in a lifetime, a literary tortilla, a hardcover hors d'oeuvre...