Sentences with phrase «mostly white working»

, Bamberger spent the 2002 — 03 school year tracking students and teachers at his alma mater, Pennsbury High School, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jersey.

The Labour left is now becoming more and more like Private Eye's swivel eyed Trotskyist Dave Spart hurling abuse at the mostly white working class Labour voters and calling them xenophobic racists amongst other things the latter being the most polite.

Not exact matches

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

This is a conclusion she has every right to argue for; but then she might better have subtitled the book The Betrayal of the Working - to - Middle Class (Mostly White) American Man — which, I grant, does not make for a very good sound bite.

Any type of beans should work just fine, I would stick to a white bean mostly for colour reasons and fairly soft beans - chickpeas, haricot beans (navy beans), butter beans (lima) for example.

Working mostly in white areas of South Africa his first year, he was bucking one of the most stubborn human clans on earth.

But the problem fans mostly come from the same mostly working class white and Italian - American South Philadelphia neighborhoods as the cops themselves.

Though the current Congress is the most diverse in history, people working for Democratic senators are overwhelmingly white and mostly women, according to a first - of - its - kind report on diversity in some congressional offices.

It truly is a work of art and I love the pop of color it brings to my mostly black / white home!

Even though I was in a total style rut this past month wearing mostly navy, white, and black I think many of my outfits still worked well.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Of course, Spielberg is working in a time - honored tradition: After The Birth of a Nation, with its risible scenes of freed slaves raping and pillaging white Southerners, movies have treated this «peculiar» institution mostly at arm's length, from the happy slaves of Gone With the Wind and Song of the South to the simian allegories of King Kong and Planet of the Apes.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

If you recognize the cast of mostly newcomers in «Dear White People,» it's likely from their TV work: Dennis Haysbert, the President in «24 ``; Tyler James Williams, the lead from «Everybody Loves Chris ``; Teyonah Parris, receptionist Dawn in «Mad Men ``; Brandon P. Bell from something called «Hollywood Heights.»

I know his extensive work in TV in the 1950s and early 1960s — which included almost every episode of Edward R. Murrow's celebrity interview show Person To Person — mostly through its reputation for interesting camerawork, and though A Tour Of The White House is fairly dull, it manages a few stylish dolly shots that would be unthinkable for a modern TV program.

Part of that work must involve the elite, mostly white industry of analysts, writers, consultants, nonprofit executives, and other professionals who conduct the business of rethinking education.

At these rapidly changing schools, mostly white, middle - and upper - middle - class families are pushing out poor or working - class «out of boundary» minority families.

This meant that our teachers and staff needed both technical assistance — to help them make sense of the data — and time and support for the delicate work of forging bonds with local parents and other caretakers (which, for our mostly white workforce, often meant learning how to communicate effectively across cultural and racial boundaries).

Enrollment has held steady at around 350 students; they are mostly working class and white.

Mrs. Koh grows frustrated that the focus of the reports about the shooting are mostly on Robbie and how such a nice, white, middle - class kid could do something so senseless, instead of remembering or honoring her working - class, Korean husband.

COLBERT: I haven't read Before the Devil Breaks You, but I have noticed more authors — mostly white authors — talking about being influenced by the election and making their work more political going forward.

It probably does not exist in dogs either (there are other genetic factors at work in a mostly white dog with blue eyes).

Martin is known for her larger - than - life wall pieces, canvas work, and installations, consisting mostly of playful black - and - white illustrations filled with whimsical characters and messages.

It read: «Working with the police in any form is enacting the racist police state on a community of mostly people of color and is in direct service of white supremacy and capitalism.»

The mostly small - scale work, including many early black - and - white, hand - colored, and sepia - toned photographs, is culled primarily from the artist's family members» collections and her own, and includes the pieces that laid the groundwork for her first major success, the acclaimed Film Stills series.

Featuring a series of etchings and lithographs produced at Mark Attwood's Artists» Press studio in White River as well as mixed media collage drawings and paintings all the size of vinyl record covers; Nhlengethwa's new works are stark, mostly monochromatic and affectingly vivid, echoing the emotion of Davis's melody.

Still, it is hardly a coincidence that the artists whose works she re-created were mostly white, heterosexual men, as these were the majority of works being shown and cited among her peers.

His box, filled with colorful leftovers from the mostly white screen, is almost as pretty as the work itself.

For his exhibition for the Artist of the Year prize in 1998, at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, in Gwacheon, Kwon underscored this change in his practice, showing mostly works that combine objects and pure, white paper.

In large, mostly black - and - white works from the 1950s on, Mr. Roszak channeled Bosch, Dali and pulp science fiction to create visions of terrific spiritual turbulence, weirdness, horror and ecstasy.

But for anyone who wants to ask the questions, Dia: Beacon, the Dia Art Foundation's sprawling upstate outpost, has been an essential Ryman pilgrimage site since it opened in 2003, with rooms full of natural light dedicated to his mostly white, mostly square minimalist works.

His paintings are predominantly large - scale, freely - scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti - like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off - white colors.

Existentialist expressions, forlorn black and white photographs of physical contact, and exuberantly colorful illustrations of sexuality are evident in the works of some of the most eminent artists who are mostly's Clark's peers and friends.

His rare white - on - white moment is presented via 27 works mostly made between 1950 and 1954.

In the largest work in the show, «Untitled (Gaeta)» from 1989, he paints mostly with his fingers, creating a small mountain of blacks and violets mixed with white.

Black and White, Mostly — Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX The Grant and Peggy Reuber Collection of International Works on Paper — McIntosh Gallery, London, ON Local History: Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd, Frank Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York City, NY Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery — London, London In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking — Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Taking A Stand Against War — Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Alois Breyer, El Lissitzky, Frank Stella: Wooden Synagogues — Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Love Story — Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze — Schweizergarten, Vienna Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection — The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Openness And Clarity: Color Field Works From The 1960S And 1970S — Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Exhibition: Part I — Van Doren Waxter, New York City, NY The Shaped Canvas, Revisited — Luxembourg & Dayan, New York City, NY Calculated Abstractions — Hard - Edge Prints — UB Art Galleries — University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Solidaridad Y Resistencia.

Though Schipani's older work can mostly be found in black and white...

If it weren't for the works» visual and thematic cohesion, the space might have felt cluttered, but the display is mostly in line with Tedja's own approach, balancing anarchistic mesh - ups with the white cube framing them.

And despite the strong contingent of major foreign galleries — including New York's David Zwirner and Marian Goodman, Franco Noero from Turin, Kurimanzutto from Mexico City, and London's White Cube — the fair was mostly a national affair, with 97 Brazilian galleries out of 132 total presenting spectacular works by emerging and established talents from across Latin America.

Excursions en no man's space features 52 works, mostly black and white but concluding with the primaries: red, yellow and blue.

«My current work is stoneware — mostly black and white.»

Painted mostly in black and white, DiMattio's new work, Banquet, reveals glimpses of blue ocean and the Boston skyline through a fantasy tableau of chairs, tables, flower vases, and boat masts.»

White Cube went a minimal route, presenting mostly work by Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, John McCracken, and Sarah Morris.

Hammons is known for works that involve his own body in their making, and works that comment on the artist's own status as a maverick African American artist operating within an elite (mostly white) art system.

Major innovations - mostly by American sculptors, but see Destroyed City (1953) by the Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967)- included the «sculptured walls» of Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988)- assemblages composed of found objects, mostly wood, sprayed in white, black or gold paint and arranged in box - like shelves occupying a wall; the felt sculptures of Robert Morris (b. 1931); the neon and fluorescent works of Bruce Nauman (b. 1941); the works of Cesar (1921 - 98) made from car - parts; the junk sculptures (eg.

The Lisa Cooley gallery's part of the show is a mostly black - and - white affair with an impressive number of older contemporary works by the likes of On Kawara, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Yayoi Kusama.

Photographer Mauro Altamura's work represented in the exhibit is mostly black and white, with individual photos grouped into wall installations.

As the title suggests, all of the works in the exhibition are [mostly] white.

Nearly 10 years later, as a lawyer whose work is in mostly family proceedings, I still have — of necessity, and for occasional reference — my 1998 Green Book (containing County Court Rules 1981) and a 1999 White Book (Rules of the Supreme Court 1965).

Second, originalism can make no democratic claim in Canada, since the Constitution Act, 1867 was the work of «a group of white men, mostly Parliamentarians, concerned with the preservation of British institutions on Canadian soil», while «[t] he constitutional negotiations in 1982 were even less «democratic»».