Word: weise
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The co-authors, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis, document hundreds of interviews of young adults in the age range of the twenties to early thirties. The interviews occur in Jersey City and Buffalo, cities chosen because of the de-industrialization that has displaced large segments of the working class since...
Forget about the lamentations of the middle class segment of Generation X. The struggles of these interviewees go deeper than political or cultural disaffection. Their struggle is one to survive. Fine and Weis document it with language that is less dense than the typical sociological study. As a result, The...
Although Fine and Weis are careful to point out the flaws of scapegoating, they too jump on the blame band wagon. Ostensibly, a cause for this economic hardship is required in their analysis; they attribute it as "demonic" legislation passed by congress. But an egregious analytical flaw creeps in. The...
Basically, Louie gets a ferret to electrocute the Bud-weis-er frogs, but it doesn't work. The sequel to this commercial shows Louie chewing out the ferret.
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On the harmful effects of alcohol advertising on children] "Mr. Speaker, ask a child what...frogs say. Most of the fifth graders who were recently surveyed answered, 'Bud-Weis-Er.'"