Word: antiwar
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...ammunition: Schenck displayed with outstretched arms a 20-week fetus to pro-choice hecklers, a doll-like apparition that the minister said was aborted but which the county medical . examiner later said was stillborn. All this made the sheriff of Erie County, Thomas Higgins, 62, feel nostalgic about the antiwar demonstrations of the '60s. "The humor is not there anymore," he said. "This is a kind of gutter ugliness...
...library of films, videos and laser discs. Tony Edmonds, chairman of the history department, uses the system to teach a course on the Vietnam War. "Now I can discuss the My Lai massacre, press a button and show a two-minute segment on it," he says. "I discuss the antiwar movement and pull up a segment on Abbie Hoffman." His undergraduates, children of the sound-bite era, take to the course like, well, MTV. "Of 105 students only 10 got below a B," Edmonds says. "That's never happened before...
...from Ted Turner in fending off last summer's coup d'etat. Addressing independent filmmakers in Santa Monica, Calif., the hyperactive Atlantan informed a stunned audience that his decision to present Gone With the Wind in Soviet theaters changed the course of history. "It's a strong antiwar film," explained Turner. "I just think it had something to do with the fact that people there chose not to have a massive civil...
...German production presents real people, not stereotyped Hollywood war characters. The movie succeeds in sending an antiwar message, constantly hinting at the tragic waste...
...charge may be valid, but is it fair to blame the sitcom? In fact, the format is the most durable, supple and, on occasion, artistically perfect one TV has ever invented. That 23-minute package has housed everything from the homey morality plays of Father Knows Best to the antiwar messages of M*A*S*H; from the social incisiveness of All in the Family to the scattershot farce of Police Squad! If the new TV season had another Sergeant Bilko or Mary Tyler Moore Show, critics would be cheering the revival of network TV, not lamenting its demise...