Word: abzug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other speakers included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Chuck Shumer (D-NY), head of the Farm Workers' Union Dolores Huerta, feminist leader Bella Abzug and representatives from several national minority groups. The speakers defined violence broadly, as everything from domestic abuse, rape and antiabortion crimes to economic violence. Economic violence, several speakers said, is the result of governmental policies which disadvantage women. Each made a personal appeal to the crowd to eradicate all these forms of violence...
...show begins right where the last one left off, with the plucky orphan gamboling around a Christmas tree with her adoptive plutocrat. In steams a social-welfare commissioner with a bad attitude, played by Alene Robertson as a cross between Bella Abzug and Shelley Winters at their coarsest. The adoption is invalid, she tells Daddy Warbucks, because he doesn't have a wife. The rest of the show is devoted to marrying him off and extracting him from the tentacles of the adhesive and ambitious commissioner. Along the way father faces financial ruin, daughter runs away and turns hobo...
University of Texas professor of American history Robert H. Abzug '67, who is listed as a historical consultant to the film, said the producers had no logical alternative but to withdraw the film for revision. Abzug earlier this week denied any involvement in research for the film...
...Abzug said he would suggest editing the last 15 minutes of the film, where troops liberate the concentration camps. "[But] it would be crazy to throw what was actually an extraordinarily good film away," he said...
...Every soldier was part of the liberation," Abzug said. "Part of the tragedy is that the movie was for a good cause. The filmmakers had no malice of forethought, but were simply not careful about cross-checking their information...