Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate wake of the Webster ruling it appears that pro-choice activists will marshall support for an active campaign to stop this backslide and prevent the anti-choice forces from gaining any further political strength. However, given that this issue will be up in the air for at least another year, it is uncertain whether that activism will be maintained at the level of intensity which it must be to make a real difference...
...anti-choice forces are in a position of strength now. Not because more of the public supports them, but because they have the secure knowledge that the president and the Court support them...
...anything but a star turn, is intelligent, confident and touching. Hoffman brings to mind his ingratiating Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman or, even more strongly, his film work in Straw Dogs as a quiet man driven beyond endurance into mayhem. The show never stints on the virulent anti-Semitism of Shakespeare's world, although Hall employs subtle staging and lighting cues to mollify modern spectators' disquiet at the injustice of the ending. The production is under discussion for transfer to the U.S. As with London's other pair of current triumphs, it cannot come too soon...
...obscenity ruling that upset anti-pornography activists, the court unanimously struck down a major portion of Congress's 1988 dial-a-porn law. The statute, which had sought to criminalize "obscene or indecent" telephone-message services, had been enacted at the urging of parents' groups that complained the racy phone communications were too easily accessible to children. But last week the court insisted on maintaining the distinction between obscenity, which may be prohibited, and indecency, which may not. Justice Byron White declared that banning indecent but not obscene telephone calls for adults went beyond what was needed to protect children...
...European debating society, are fast becoming a bellwether for European politics. Thatcher aides sought to downplay the Tory defeat by arguing that the culprit was domestic discontent with Britain's 15% interest rates and 8.3% inflation. Even critics within her own party scoffed, blaming her Britain- first, anti-European rhetoric at a time when Europe is moving toward economic integration in 1992. Said a Tory backbencher: "She got it drastically wrong...