Though the Beatles come off in the film as flamboyantly physical — more sensuously present than the stiff middle-class specimens whom they encounter on the train, in an ad agency, on the street, backstage at the TV station — their physicality is self-deprecating and unthreatening.
In the stiff, upper-class world of British drama in the 1950s, Wesker was part of a wave of new voices who took on all subjects, the "kitchen sink" of drama.
"Despite losing a billion dollars, Trump wants to reward himself with more tax breaks on inherited wealth while stiffing middle-class families who earn their paychecks with hard work".
The terms, in case you're wondering, come from the original Wall Street: I'm not talking a $400,000 a year working Wall Street stiff flying first class and being comfortable, I'm talking about liquid.
Scott McAdams' new ad portrays the Sitka mayor as a working class stiff and touts his work experience as a deckhand in the Bering Sea.
GARY MELIUS contends that his lifestyle is more that of a working-class stiff than that of the rich and famous.
If the government decides to bail out the car manufacturers, then isn't favourable treatment for their workers exactly what is needed to avoid bailing out rich executives while stiffing the working class?
The war was something to be endured - not in the stiff-upper-lip class sense, but as a necessary hardship in which it was still important to maintain standards".
A promising detective -- he has the makings of a real character, with at least two dimensions -- pursues the evil writer pair, but he is a working-class stiff and he fades away.
