Six people sit down for dinner and never get around to actually eating. Stars: Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Cassel. Director: Luis Buñuel ...

In my wild youth, I spent a season in hell as a devotee of Arthur Rimbaud. I read about different-colored vowels as I stayed up way past my bedtime and drank cup after cup of stringent hot tea at the ...

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A wealthy African American family gathers at their vacation home in Martha's Vineyard and like at any family gathering, drama and comedy ensue. We'll talk with Lydia Diamond about her play "Stick Fly" ...

In this special episode of “Working People,” we chat with internationally acclaimed author and bestselling historian Rick Perlstein. As a child of the bourgeoisie himself, Rick offers a unique view ...

Theorist Karl Marx called the intermerdiary layer between the capitalist class and the working class the "petty bourgeoisie" ...

“All of the birds died in 1986 due to Reagan killing them and replacing them with spies that are now watching us. The birds work for the bourgeoisie.” Those are the words of Kendrick Smith, a ...

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In the mid-nineteenth century the bourgeoisie were apparent everywhere. You met them in theatres and restaurants, in churches and clubs, on beaches and river boats, in woods and parks, often walking ...

THE crowd surges back and forth, hands above heads, mobile-phone cameras snapping one of Brazil's best-known samba bands. It could be almost anywhere in Latin America's largest city on a Saturday ...

PARIS — On Saturday in Paris the barricades went up at the foot of the Champs-Élysées, as they have every weekend since November, in anticipation of the marching of the “Yellow Vests” and their ...