Word: working-class
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...level with “Dreamer,” which is dedicated to a single mom whose baby has a no-good father. Slug sounds like he’s borrowing from a LIfetime special: she “worked it and built her own nest to live.” With working-class hero lines like “she still dreams after she woke,” Slug could have easily been writing songs for Marianne Faithfull. It’s surprising, then, that Marianne Faithfull may be the only artist in history whose actual music doesn?...
...Obama now has some work to do. He is seen by many downscale voters as the candidate of lites, if not litist himself. Five days after his comments first surfaced on the internet, a Google search of Snobama was bringing up nearly 4,000 hits--which is ironic, considering that he is the only candidate in the race whose mother once collected food stamps. That's why he has rolled out the endorsements of Bruce Springsteen and the American Hunters and Shooters Association and put more emphasis on what he shares with working-class voters. He talked about...
...Into the spotlight Surprising as Rudd's popularity was to the Coalition, it was even more so to some of his Labor colleagues. Prissy, bookish, and married to a multimillionaire businesswoman, he wasn't exactly everyone's picture of the Aussie working-class man, though he lost few opportunities to remind people he'd grown up on a Queensland farm. "If he grew up in poverty in rural Queensland," sneered former Labor leader Latham, "where did the posh accent come from?" Advising Rudd to "take the piss" out of himself, his brother Greg reportedly said: "You're just not that...
...slow-moving line and the fans that still had such faith in a perennial loser. Finally, I asked the man in front of me the question I’d been dying to ask: when have Celtics tickets been in such high demand?He was a grizzled working-class guy, worried about having dashed from work to “grab tickets and head back.” His response? Larry Bird’s rookie year—1980.Bird was drafted as a junior in 1978 and returned to Indiana State for one more year, but his being taken...
...wealth accrued by high-ranking members of the IRGC by such contracts has raised concerns within the Iranian establishment, chiefly because it threatens to provoke the resentment of the organization's young, working-class rank and file. In 2001, three-quarters of Guard members voted for moderate President Mohammad Khatami, suggesting its majority have more in common with ordinary Iranians chafing under a poor economy, than with the hard-line newly rich leadership clique. In working-class districts of south Tehran, the discrepancy is visible among members of the Basij, a voluntary paramilitary organization that overlaps with the IRGC...