Word: underclasses
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...boiler room, Kamagi, a six-armed troll, keeps stern watch over dozens of soot-ball slaves--cute vermin, thrilled when Chihiro shows up to lighten their work load. Ren, a scrubwoman, offers Chihiro the weary wisdom of the eternal underclass. The child's best hope for fleeing Yubaba on the undersea railroad is young Haku, a boy who can take on the shape of a dragon. When Chihiro and this beautiful beast take to the sky, they express the most elevated forms of teamwork and puppy love...
...whose political scruples - and sexual possessiveness - put him at odds with the blandly conniving Yank played by Brendan Fraser. Even Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, the widely heralded acting debut of hip-hopper Eminem, has a political agenda tucked inside its rappin'-Rocky plot. It says that the white underclass should be as free as the black to mouth racist, misogynist, gay-bashing jive. Eminem is as yet no actor; he recedes into sullenness, and his intimate scenes with the smart, tarty Brittany Murphy lack juice. But the guy has a face for movies. He's Tobey Maguire with 'tude...
Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) directs the widely heralded acting debut of hip-hopper Eminem. This rappin' Rocky says that the white underclass should be as free as the black to mouth racist, misogynist, gay-bashing jive. The star is as yet no actor; he recedes into sullenness. But Eminem has a face made for movies. He's Tobey Maguire with 'tude...
...have suffered from this disorder since I was a child, and my life has been hell, even with four years of college. Many people who are bipolar live badly, without much money or any kind of career. We are mostly members of the underclass, tenants of trailer parks and people who do menial jobs. It is not easy. We are not, like bipolar author Lizzie Simon, part of the middle class. Sorry, but the happy ending she wrote about is simply not true for most of us. Manic-depressive illness usually ends badly. ALBERT BARR Seneca...
...Justine is short on book learning, but her instincts are sound. Her escapist strivings lead her into deep, even violent, victimization. Yet you remain invested in her, hoping she will escape her dim fate, hoping this patronizing film will rise above its mostly false sympathy for the American underclass...