Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week the court found that cross burning is also protected by the First Amendment. A Minnesota teenager, Robert A. Viktora, burned a cross on the front lawn of a black family in St. Paul and was charged under a city ordinance that banned any action "which one knows . . . arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender." Scalia called the ordinance unconstitutional on its face "in that it prohibits otherwise permitted speech solely on the basis of the subjects the speech addresses." He was quick to add, "Let there be no mistake...
...beyond race." Then, too, the zeitgeist was changing. For all his street sass and gutter gargle, Murphy is basically a middle-class star, closer to Bill Cosby than to the new wave of African-American filmmakers (Spike Lee, John Singleton) and rapmasters (all those hot Ices). Their marketable anger made Eddie look timid, irrelevant, a hipper but still compromised version of the old Negro clown -- a white man's black...
...toughest part of the story for Riley may have been deciding whether to do it at all. Wouldn't the publicity wind up giving wider currency to virulent views? he asked himself. Wouldn't it be better to ignore the racists? The anger spawned at rallies he attended convinced Riley otherwise. "As someone once told me, mushrooms grow best in the dark, so better to shine some light." I think you'll agree that the Riley-Campbell combination illuminates this subject pretty well...
...probably shouldn't be too hard on the governor. After all, he's the only one who's found the wherewithal to release an economic plan. And this is not intended to echo the charge that Clinton merely panders to voters according to poll numbers. His willingness to anger some of his most dependable voters--however calculated it may be--should be enough to dismiss the idea...
Greenpeace, USA. spokesperson C. Blair Palesesaid her organization reacted with "anger, dismay,frustration" to Brundtland's announcement...