he civics teacher had an inspired idea: bring American jurisprudence to life by showing the class an award-winning 1957 film. Twelve Angry Men had all the requisites of instructive high drama: suspense, as one juror tries to change the minds of 11 others hell-bent on sending the accused to death row; crackling dialogue, written by Reginald Rose, a luminary of television’s Golden Age; a scintillating cast, led by Henry Fonda and directed by Sidney Lumet. The title flashed on-screen—immediately followed by a chorus of groans. One 15-year-old wailed for all his disappointed colleagues: “You didn’t tell us it was going to be in black-and-white!” The place was New Rochelle High School in Westchester, New York, but the same scene could have played across the United States. The owner of my local video-rental place puts it succinctly: “Most of our customers are under 30. The way they see it, life is in color, so why not movies? Which is why we stopped offering black-and-whites, except for th...
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Apesar de estarem carregados de razão nas suas reivindicações (também já fui Recibo Verde embora trabalhasse numa empresa a tempo inteiro como funcionária normal), não me revejo nestas petições pois não falam de quem trabalha legitimamente a RV (por opção, normalmente) e paga todos os meses a Segurança Social, mesmo que não ganhe nada, e não tem grandes direitos (e não tem tempo nem paciência para andar a abrir e fechar Atividade e a a perder dias nas Finanças e Seg. Social), talvez até na ilusão da longínqua (e cada vez mais difícil de se concretizar) reforma.