Word: workingman
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Yanks' crosstown rival? It turns out that Minaya, who grew up a fly ball from Shea Stadium in Queens rooting for the Mets, loves the movie for a line that captures his own unlikely ascension: De Niro, who plays a bus driver, barks at his Mob-bedazzled son, "The workingman is the tough...
...Democratic stands and nominate Democratic candidates. For future reference, this means that the party’s presidential nominee should not support the use of unemployment to combat inflation, should not support a foreign policy of military intervention, and should work as energetically to defend the consumer and the workingman from their corporate predators as to protect the vitality of American industry. Democrats who respond to the “mandate” of the 1980 election by scurrying to the right will probably find their jobs taken from them by identical-looking Republican challengers in a few years. Jimmy...
...stereotypical image of the modern woman who has escaped from domestic prison. Fifty years ago, a stay-at-home mom who loved her husband would not automatically be assumed to be a Republican. The image of the Democratic Party that used to come to mind was of a workingman and his wife sitting at the kitchen table worrying about how they were going to pay the bills and voting for Adlai Stevenson because he was going to help them squeak by every month and maybe even afford to send their kids to college...
...African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers. The N.Y.P.D. yanked his escort for the next few nights, claiming it had been, after all, only a courtesy. Springsteen didn't sing Skin in his next two outings, and--presto!--his police detail was restored. Did the champion of the workingman back down? Maybe he just appreciated anew the lyrics of his song Thunder Road: "The door's open, but the ride it ain't free...
...where he had been bedridden in a nursing home with asthma and emphysema. Of his dozens of hits on more than 30 albums, PayCheck, born Donald Eugene Lytle (in the '60s he took the name of a boxer KO'd by Joe Louis), was best known for the 1977 workingman's chant Take This Job and Shove It. After a battle with drugs and alcohol, bankruptcy and a prison sentence for shooting a stranger, PayCheck--whose other hits included (Don't Take Her) She's All I Got and I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)--became a born...