Sentences with phrase «american economic desperation»
«Fear Factor left behind the rule book in E.L. Katz's ultra-violent parody on American economic desperation that mixes murky morality with a heavy twist of sadism.
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They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....
He's the bastard son of capitalism, the American Dream gone sour in our time of economic desperation.
Just like that, director David Mackenzie establishes, first, the idea that the men in that blue Camaro are up to no good; second, the current of economic desperation driving screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's story; and third, the religious posturing that offers an alternative to existential despair, with roadside churches, TV evangelists, and Christian radio offering a relentless white - noise stream of piety on demand to an American underclass with nowhere left to turn.