Word: worker
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...Signal Morning” posits the intricate juxtapositions of 60s pop and ambient noodling of “Black Foliage,” condensed into a frenzied dreamscape, with the volume cranked way up. “Overjoyed” and opener “Woodpecker Greeting Worker Ant”—among others—are some of the loudest, most vibrant songs that Hart has ever released. “Round Again,” the album’s centerpiece and a top contender for its catchiest song, layers guitars and bass over a wall...
...racing to "outgreen" one another, a competition that is good for their bottom lines as well as the environment's. The most progressive companies are talking about a triple bottom line - profit, planet and people - that focuses on how to run a business while trying to improve environmental and worker conditions...
...sunglasses and a hat. "I worry for my family back in the North," he says, wary of the brutal punishments dealt out to defectors' relatives - never mind the relatives of defectors who choose to subvert the revered likeness of the Dear Leader or who produce blasphemous images of the worker's paradise. One of Sunmu's best-known series of works, the Happy Children paintings, features rows of identical North Korean youngsters wearing fixed, disturbing grins that radiate hysteria rather than joy. "No one knows what happiness is in North Korea," Sunmu explains. "They are just told to be happy...
...alike will recognize his methods in the new film: brisk, pointed synopses of complicated issues (though even a Harvard professor has trouble describing what a derivative is); sad tales of working-class families evicted from their homes because their mortgage rates ballooned; a snowbank of statistics, such as that worker productivity has increased by 45% since 1980 while average real income is stagnant; and pert clips ranging from 1950s instructional films to that YouTube favorite, "Cat Flushing a Toilet Music Video." The material is, as always in Moore movies, efficiently and amusingly marshaled to serve the larger theme: that...
...profoundly troubling. “Fat City” is a novel that changes itself as it moves. Tully struggles, torn between returning to the ring and succumbing to alcoholism. One of the most vibrant and paradoxically banal sections comprises Tully’s time as a day worker reminiscent of “Grapes of Wrath;” “Tully was hardly thinking now, his mind fixed on pain and chopping and a vision of quitting time. Seeing a man go to the edge of the field, he rose and went to the foreman...