Word: worker
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...other thing that I am very strict about looking for is sanity. If I'm going to potentially spend seven years with this person, I want to make sure that they're the kind of person who's collaborative and easygoing, ready for a challenge, a hard worker. I'm very old-fashioned about the work ethic and the training, and that's a part...
...idealistic for a moment. I would love to see the practice of medicine be a team event. In a hospital setting, you can have a team where you can bring in somebody from pastoral care to talk to them about that, you can bring in a social worker to deal with the social issues, a therapist if need be. And then just as you hope that they as a family are going to make a decision, you as a team can make a decision, and then that way you have the best way of optimizing what I think are really...
...explicated (and thereby diminished) when Lark says straight out, “From the beginning, I confused him with an angel, a good part of me that didn’t speak and wouldn’t talk in plain language.” An albino Social Service worker, literally invisible to the rest of society, appears to him in times of desperation. With a voice of many whispering sounds, bearing gifts such as a wheelchair and flowers, the albino serves the role of a not-so-subtle angel. Phillips’ conceit to render a mentally handicapped...
...lure the average viewer, but those who open their hearts to the life of a man working at a fishing boat dock will likely find themselves steadily absorbed in his relationships and all their complications. The story revolves around Slimane (Habib Boufares), a tired 61-year-old shipyard worker who is laid off from his job after decades of faithful labor. His ensuing unemployment is marked by an absence of direction and purpose, and a hint of despair. “I’ve done nothing, left nothing to you,” he says, disillusioned, to his lover...
...love people, but politicians deal with the outside measurements of people. I like to deal with the inside measurements of people. That’s the role of culture. I think I would have been involved in culture in some way, whether as a teacher, as a social worker, or as something, but not as a politician. THC: I think you’ve ended up incredibly involved in culture.YYM: In the end, yes, but it’s only in the last maybe five years that I’ve come to a certain realization that basically I should...